Post says Google DeepMind has gone over a year without pretraining a new base model
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-22
A post claims Google DeepMind’s apparent inability to pretrain a new base model for over a year is a major self-own, arguing that a compute-rich company should not be moving this cautiously.
The attached reply frames it as a strategic failure: even a half-baked new pretrain in early 2026 would likely outrun Google’s current lineup, so the delay looks increasingly hard to justify.
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