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Pichai has been a terrible CEO, he almost lost the AI race before it started because he was too focused on Google’s consumer products. I was shocked they kept him around. He’s very much just a money manager like Tim Cook or Steve Ballmer. Those types are great in the short term but risk the entire company’s future long term
I'm surprised people still think this. Google has the strongest position of any company in the world on AI. They have expertise and capability across the entire stack from chips to data centers to fundamental research to frontier models. Just because they weren't first-to-market with a chatbot doesn't mean they almost lost or made some terrible durable blunder. That's about Google, though. The picture about Sundar sp…
Re: Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
#191People give him way too many breaks, he's a money manager. He was asleep at the wheel when OpenAI absolutely steamrolled them, even though they very easily could have won that race.