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I’m stressing the business part. YouTube is a loss-making business year after year. Deep Mind gloss doesn’t seem to change that. If indeed it even is Deep Mind
by rich_sasha 5y ago
I’m stressing the business part. YouTube is a loss-making business year after year. Deep Mind gloss doesn’t seem to change that.
If indeed it even is Deep Mind making those improvements, Google has lots of other ML groups, such as Google Brain, and these are more directly focused on Google products.
There’s no denying their academic success, or game playing etc, but as far as I can see, the data centre cooling bit is the only palpable (public) business success.
- eru 5y agoHow do you know that YouTube is a loss making business?
- tarvaina 5y agoYouTube made $6B revenue in Q1. [1] While they don’t release profit numbers, it would be pretty surprising if they were negative. Did you mean to write DeepMind instead? If so, I don’t disagree. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/youtube-could-soon-equal-netflix-in-revenue.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/youtube-could-soon-equal-net...
- mirker 5y agoDeep mind’s protein folding algorithm is probably worth a chunk of change. As far as I know, they’ve been holding onto the secret sauce rather than publishing it.