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1. paxys · 1785949117 · focus · HN ↗

   DeepMind had a generational run as a pure AI research lab. AlphaGo, AlphaZero, protein folding, tensor improvements, weather forecasting, GNoME and so much more. Google leadership saw all this and went “now go generate a multi trillion dollar commercial business and beat OpenAI and Anthropic” and the results were, predictably, failure. Such a shame.

   1. underlipton · 1785970316 · focus · HN ↗

      Can you imagine if they'd skipped all of that and put the effort into keeping Search profitable without enshittifying it? Or even just skipped the second part?

      1. janalsncm · 1785979029 · focus · HN ↗

         What would that even look like? Paid search engines exist and they are niche products.

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