Dev Slams Google's AI Progress: No Breakthroughs Since 2017 Transformer
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-08-06
In response to a Google blog post touting its AI momentum and high developer demand for Gemini, the author strongly disagrees.
The author argues that Google is not making extraordinary progress but is instead falling behind across the board in AI. They point out that Google's last true field-defining breakthrough was the Transformer paper in 2017, and recent announcements like Gemini Robotics do not qualify as breakthroughs.
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