> That alone should tell us something about the position of Google's AI strategy right now. Not really? Maybe they believe those 12000 people have the wrong s

> That alone should tell us something about the position of Google's AI strategy right now. Not really? Maybe they believe those 12000 people have the wrong skills for this job. Maybe they believe they can get the AI integrated with a lot less people. Maybe they would have fired 20k people, but decided to keep 8k of those to integrate the language generative model into products. Not saying any of this is true. In fact more likely that the company is just reacting randomly without a big overarching plan. I'm just saying that I don't think you can draw conclusions from the fact that layoffs are happening about their AI strategy.