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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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  1. firasd · · focus · HN ↗
    Who knew the real revenue unlock wouldn’t be based on how much paranoid red-teaming the model underwent to resist users jailbreaking its ‘alignment’, and instead more on whether the model is post-trained to use ‘sed’ and ‘git’? Poor Gemini

    Scientist-heavy orgs that want to solve everything in token space may overtook tool use; meanwhile Anthropic has been super focused on MCP, Claude Code etc for over a year

    1. thorncorona · · focus · HN ↗
      Gemini isn't as heavily aligned as OAI / Ant models ..?
      1. firasd · · focus · HN ↗
        If you just talk to it over API (no web search) the Gemini models are extremely resistant to thinking the user may be living in a universe outside their training data. Try to discuss any news etc and they assume it’s fake or fiction
      2. croemer · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes, Gemini let's me do SARS-CoV-2 evolution research (perfectly safe, should never be blocked but is impossible with OAI/Ant)
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