Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI
Ashley Belangerarstechnica.com
Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI
Earlier this year we met with our Limited Partners. Their top question was “will the AI transition destroy your existing cloud companies?”
We began with a strong default of “no.” The classic battle between startups and incumbents is a horse race between startups building distribution and incumbents building product. Can the young companies with coo... See more
We began with a strong default of “no.” The classic battle between startups and incumbents is a horse race between startups building distribution and incumbents building product. Can the young companies with coo... See more
Pat Grady • Generative AI’s Act O1
Probably the bigger change, from what I've heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit fought against creeping complexity. There is a semi-famous internal document he wrote where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning, or at least contain it as much as possible, so that ranking stays... See more
The man who killed Google Search? | Hacker News
The seals around corporate research are never airtight: team members leave to found their own AI startups, and some groups like Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, and DeepMind still publish articles on their most meaningful contributions. But broadly speaking, if one of these companies makes a unique breakthrough—a trade secret that could ge
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A bedrock principle of Google was serving its users—but a goal was building a giant artificial intelligence learning machine that would bring uncertain consequences to the way all of us live.