Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?
It’s weird and a bit surprising to me that Google hasn’t been able to release an LLM for at scale usage that surpasses GPT-4, though they seem like they wish they could. Gemini Ultra seems like it’ll surpass GPT-4 once released next year, though GPT-4.5 may take the lead back either before then or soon after.
What are some of the functional reasons for Google not having the leading LLM, and what are some of the more intangible reasons?
In theory, they have more money, more access to compute, and to data, they have many great researchers, and they have great distribution.
In practice, though, what has made the difference for OpenAI?
What are some of the functional reasons for Google not having the leading LLM, and what are some of the more intangible reasons?
In theory, they have more money, more access to compute, and to data, they have many great researchers, and they have great distribution.
In practice, though, what has made the difference for OpenAI?