> but their positioning seems to indicate more interest in solving hard science problems with AI than with building human-aligned productivity tools and assista

> but their positioning seems to indicate more interest in solving hard science problems with AI than with building human-aligned productivity tools and assistants. Except they literally have a product called “Assistant” that uses language processing today. Sure gAssistant doesn’t use a LLM to generate the response… but instead it uses factual data from the internet to generate a response. I imagine they could easily roll out a LLM if they wanted, but surely most queries are just smart-home and weather queries that don’t need it. And they have AI infusion into gmail, Google docs, etc. this is where the actual value of a LLM will live. Chat GPT is cool, but the biggest uses of LLM will surely come from “assistive” tech built into these existing products. Why write a document when you can write an outline and the facts and Google docs will write it for you? We’re already getting there with e-mail response autocompletes.