Ethan Mollick: frontier models outclass Google Home; Apple and Amazon stuck
emollick · x · 2026-11-16
Ethan Mollick argues frontier models can already reason about the state of your house — spotting anomalies, safety issues and solving problems from images with increasingly good spatial understanding. He sees Google well-positioned in the home hub space but notes Google Home's abilities lag far behind its models, while Apple and Amazon face a dilemma with lagging models and Chinese open-weights models looking unlikely.
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