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Comment · 1 day ago
The world is using 300T token a day. Barely anyone is using AI. This number would grow 30x. If there is anything, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic are undervalued by a great deal.
Comment · 3 days ago
Outside of their successful products their products are terrible isn't even an argument.

They have many successful products. Most have only 1-2.

Youtube, Android, Chrome, Search, Photos, Workspaces, Cloud, Fitbit, Pixel Phones, Waymo not to mention dozens of open source projects.

> Of not maintaining/outright abandoning their products, and making Search worse over the years?

You just said their products are terrible. They do shut the products that do not meet the bar. That is good thing.

> ChatGPT has 1.2B weekly active users, all the normies know what ChatGPT is but don't know about Gemini (outside the "AI Mod

No one needs to know what Gemini are. If they have used search they have used it.

Comment · 3 days ago
It is pretty clear at this point that the frontier models need only handful of tiered models.

1. Ultra - The best and the most expensive for showing off and government. 2. Pro - Almost best but substantially cheaper for most productive people. 3. Flash - Workhorse for everyone. 4. Lite - For the unwashed masses and peasants.

There is no need to attach anything to these labels. In fact industry could simply standardize these namings like SEMVER.

There could be an internal representation which could give specific number of the model but these companies should move on to be more like Chrome. No one knows or cares which version of chrome they are on.

For a lot of systems the real underlying version would matter because of reliability. That can be provided to those power users.

Comment · 3 days ago
For Gemini that is a foundation model version 3.1 3.5 4 etc. and there is checkpoint on evolution of those specific models. Gemini 4 had Argon - B<> - Carbon and who knows they might have Dysporsium or Europium.

Or you might get Gemini 5 Arizona.

Comment · 3 days ago
My mother travels across two countries often. As a result she can not but Youtube Premium or any AI Pro plans because Google can't detect her country. The pricing in both countries is same. She wont even mind paying the highest plan.
Comment · 13 days ago
India brought several tonnes back from London. Approximately 250T was brought back in 100% cases it was brought from totally ordinary cargo planes. From what I have heard, hardest part of securing customs exemptions at port of entry in India.
Comment · 16 days ago
I think there will be a market for video game styles armour for dogs
Comment · 16 days ago
Unnecessary comment. It is really heartwarming to see an individual do something in his spare time that helps 100s of being that can't speak for themselves.
Comment · 18 days ago
Is this from you car ? Gemini in car is probably less intelligent than a spider.

I tell it to "Play Let it go from frozen". It plays it on youtube music. 5 seconds later I tell it again 'Play let it go from frozen" it then just dies saying "I can't play videos in car".

Comment · 1 month ago
Tokens are going to the new fossil fuels of the modern world. The valuations make sense.
Comment · 1 month ago
Corolla is sort of highly underrated engineering marvel.
Comment · 1 month ago
People who have vested interest will make such accusations.

I own EVs but I am opposed to "mandates", opposing coercion makes you anti coercion not the objective of coercion.

Comment · 1 month ago
Toyota was broadly right in their approach to EVs. They were pioneers in hybrids. They had excellent hybrid cars like Prius that have been around forever. Their low end cars are extremely fuel efficient too that making them hybrid does not really offer marginal benefits.

Now most companies have written off their crazy investments in EVs. Honda has discontinued Prologue and so on.

Comment · 1 month ago
Tort law.
Comment · 1 month ago
Regime fealty has always been there in US. The current admin is just more corrupt and throughly incompetent at hiding it.

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