Google’s year-long pause in new base-model pretraining draws sharp criticism
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-22
The post criticizes Google for reportedly going more than a year without pretraining a new base model, calling it a major self-own for one of the most compute-rich companies in the world. The author argues that even a rough 2026 Q1 pretrain would likely outperform Google’s current lineup.
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