SemiAnalysis: Google Has Given Up on Building Frontier AI Models
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-07
A recent SemiAnalysis report claims that Google has given up on building frontier AI models and that DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab. The report suggests Google did not believe enough in recursive self-improvement to allocate scarce compute to DeepMind, opting instead to sell it to competitors. Commenters were quick to mock DeepMind executives for previously dismissing competitors like DeepSeek.
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