> Google is conflicted about AI. Having AI do searches for you and summerize the results is both way more expensive than normal searches and means way fewer ads

> Google is conflicted about AI. Having AI do searches for you and summerize the results is both way more expensive than normal searches and means way fewer ads are shown But those ads would be compelling and more valuable. There is no reason to believe the current inference LLM architecture is the optimal one (as shown by Mistral's MoE) - future inference will likely be cheaper than it is currently. The sentiment that Google's goose is cooked I'm seeing in this thread seems like wish-fulfillment to me. Especially considering that the upstarts also don't have a clear road to profitability