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Sundar has done so many giant mistakes: overhiring, under firing, zero substantial acquisitions and of course missing out on LLMs. How is he still CEO? Not to
by mupuff1234 4y ago
Sundar has done so many giant mistakes: overhiring, under firing, zero substantial acquisitions and of course missing out on LLMs.
How is he still CEO? Not to even mention his insane salary.
- mmmmmbop 4y agoAccusing Google of missing out on LLMs is shortsighted, in my opinion. They were the ones who invented the entire LLM infrastructure, and they publicly released their own chat LLM just a few months after OpenAI. It's actually quite impressive to me that a company of this ridiculous size is able to pivot and execute so quickly when needed. And let's be realistic. Had Google been the first to introduce a publicly accessible chat LLM, all the regulators that were already concerned about Google being too powerful would have intensified their calls for antitrust action against Google. Also recall that Google was not the first to ship a modern smartphone OS and it took them years to achieve a similar quality to iOS, but now they dominate the worldwide smartphone OS market.
- mupuff1234 4y agoCan you show me a single company using a Google LLM API? Now just like in cloud they're gonna be playing catch up forever. > but now they dominate the worldwide smartphone OS market And now they are slowly losing market share to Apple, another major Sundar mistake.
- mmmmmbop 4y agoOpenAI is ahead at the moment, nobody's disputing that. But if anyone is able to challenge OpenAI's supremacy in that space, it's Google. And if LLMs will indeed be the revolution that some make them out to be, and Google is able to capture 70+% market share within a few years as they were able with mobile OSes, that's not a bad place to be in.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoBig tech can no longer make serious acquisitions due to regulatory constraints.
- mupuff1234 4y agoMSFT bought Linkedin, Github, OpenAI (sorta), Zenimax and tried to buy activision. Google could have surely at least bought a gaming company instead trying to start a new one and then killing it a year or two later.
- HDThoreaun 4y agogithub was 5 years ago linkedin was 7. Times have changed, the techno skeptics are in control. Microsoft didn't acquire openAI so didn't face regulatory hurdles.