@heyshrutimishra: Sundar Pichai just reminded everyone that Google was built on open source. He personally worked on Chromium, Android, a…
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Sundar Pichai reminded that Google was built on open source and applies the same philosophy to AI, with Gemma models designed for edge devices, while noting that frontier models require massive capital investment.
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Sundar Pichai just reminded everyone that Google was built on open source.
He personally worked on Chromium, Android, and Kubernetes before becoming CEO. Three systems that power billions of devices today.
Now Google is applying the same philosophy to AI. Their Gemma models are updated year after year, designed to run on edge devices rather than requiring massive cloud infrastructure.
The question he got was why not release a large open source frontier model. His answer was revealing: frontier training requires enormous capex investment, and Google is putting billions into R&D to stay at the frontier.
The open source AI landscape is quietly consolidating around a few players who can sustain the investment. Google’s two decades of open source credibility gives them a position that’s hard to replicate.
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