Does Google secretly believe LLM scaling won't lead to AGI?
TameYour · reddit · 2026-09-06
The author asks why Google, despite unmatched money, data, talent and compute — and DeepMind authorship of the Transformer paper — has failed to consistently lead OpenAI or Anthropic at the frontier, even trailing some Chinese labs in places.
- Possible explanations raised: poor execution, or a fundamental disagreement — that Google believes LLM scaling is a bubble and AGI won't emerge from bigger models, more data and more compute.
- Speculative discussion post with no new facts or data, but an interesting framing of Google's strategic position.
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