I’m still trying to get my mind around a world where Brain/DeepMind aren’t way ahead on all this. They were so far ahead so recently.

Is there a comeback story here? IIRC they’ve still got Dean and Hassabis and a bunch of other bruisers, along with arbitrary financing, the best training sets, and novel compute.

Is it time to put Hassabis in charge and start making Ilya and Karpathy offers they can’t refuse?

The world's greatest engineering talent won't save you if the management is incompetent.

Google may yet experience a comeback, but it will start with throwing out the current C-suite.

Hassabis has some pretty serious chops on the leadership side as well as a firm grip on the technology.

Him as CEO?

Deepmind didn't produce any AI product with good proven adaptation, while burned many billions.

Sure, they're all competing labs, but Deepmind isn't a competitor for a product offering. Anthropic is quite analogous to OpenAI because they have an API you can pay for an a chatbot product you can use.

Is Deepmind doing LLMs? I thought it was a different team in Google that trained Bard/Palm

They merged Deepmind into Brain and rebranded it all Deepmind.

I think they merged the teams