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Startups can move fast and break things. Google cannot. I think they'll surpass OpenAI relatively quickly just based on the sheer volume of data that they possess for training, combined with the size of their GPU compute. It's just a matter of time. Gemini is already outperforming GPT-4 on paper, we just haven't been able to use it yet.

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The current mid-sized model they’ve released for Gemini is pretty garbage, and fails all the tests I personally use to separate the smart LLMs from the stupid ones. I can run several local models faster and better.

Which ones?

People don't like advertising. Google is an advertising company. The more these AI models get corrupted with advertising the more likely they are to take a lead. That the reason they don't dominate in cloud storage. Where's the competitive advantage in embedding advertising in people's personal and publicly shared documents?

Google Drive dominates cloud storage[1].

[1]: https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/file-sharing--198/goog...

I have a hard time believing that, but if that website says so, it must be true. I would wonder if they are including gmail users as well as all android users, but I don't know their methodology. If they include all android users, they should include all ios users for Apple Music and iTunes since Apple stores their music on Microsoft Azure, which last I checked is the same thing OneDrive uses.

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