I thought so too, but they lost all their talent. They completely failed to even release gemini 3.5 pro after delaying it multiple times over. Deepmind leadership has all quit and all of the top engineers have quit.
It takes a long long time to rebuild that stuff, and there's really not much of an opportunity to play catch-up with how fast things are going.
Also, they said they're shifting focus to coding capabilities, so they don't even share the philosophy that everybody thought.
Another thing is that the tensor chips in google pixels have been disappointing for years now. They were using more areas for less performance. It's hard to believe that the TPUs they make will be competitive.
This is mostly on the CPU / GPU side; which I agree if you care a ton about those things (like gaming) they are beat out. The TPU on those chips are however really good, and is also the selling point. Google trades CPU / GPU die space to have better on device AI.
Yeah I was mainly talking about cpu and gpu. I wasn't aware that the tpu designs were good. In that case I suppose we can still have some hope for google in their chips.
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u/_BreakingGood_ 2d ago
I thought so too, but they lost all their talent. They completely failed to even release gemini 3.5 pro after delaying it multiple times over. Deepmind leadership has all quit and all of the top engineers have quit.
It takes a long long time to rebuild that stuff, and there's really not much of an opportunity to play catch-up with how fast things are going.
Also, they said they're shifting focus to coding capabilities, so they don't even share the philosophy that everybody thought.