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Something seems afoot at Google. The real tell will be if Demis makes a move. Jeff Dean seems more like a lifer to me.

Maybe this a a naive take but I see Demis as future Google CEO candidate. If AI is really the future, he is much better suited to lead the company.

The scientist who works at night and sleep at day? I don't think he s the managerial type

Famously Mao was like that as well.

Mao started doing that after becoming the "CEO", not the other way around.

I just think that people are running to pre IPO Anthropic to make bank.

It also feels like Anthropic is the new Google though. They actually try to not be evil, and are actually at the frontier of new tech.

Google was famously undervalued at IPO, even relative to its value back then (that is, ignoring the wild upside that actualized). It’s likely not the new Google from a shareholder upside perspective, given the hype.

Google's IPO was a Dutch Auction. It's impossible to be undervalued in a Dutch Auction.

Was Google preventing other search engine developers from searching for resources?

I mean, just saying the new guy is trying not to be evil does not give any credence to some meaningful differentiation over the long term. Won't they just eventually be evil too? Seems odd to continue to trust the early thinking of long term companies. Haven't we been burned enough?

Demis is practically a co-CEO at this point. If he leaves, that'd be a huge of trust in Google.

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