I don't think Google has given up; rather, I believe they are taking a wait-and-see approach and carefully controlling their investment. Furthermore, I feel Gemini is still excellent at simple, short-term, and even multimodal tasks, but it is not well-suited for long-term planning scenarios for AI agents.
Ask HN: Did Google give up in the AI Race?
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Re: Ask HN: Did Google give up in the AI Race?
#12I think giving away Gemma may be telling on the direction they wanna go long term. Winning doesn't have to mean making the most money I hope. Maybe winning is paying homage to the years of organizing everyone's data and giving it back in the form of a highly optimized completely free capable model? Or am I too naive. Give a highly optimized code forge I can run on local affordable hardware and you will win in my eyes…
> Or am I too naive.
Yes