That was ages ago. In AI even a week feels like a whole year in other fields. And many/most of those researchers have fled to startups, so those startups also have a right to brag. But not too much - only immediate access to a model beating GPT4 is worth bragging today (cloud), or getting GPT3.5 quality from a model running on a phone (edge).

So it's either free-private-gpt3.5 or cloud-better-than-gpt4v. Nothing else matters now. I think we have reached an extreme point of temporal discounting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference).

The Transformer paper “Attention is All You Need” came out in 2017. Sundar got the CEO job two years earlier, so he was in CEO diapers at the time if you will.

I would argue Google has done almost nothing interesting since then (at least not things they haven't killed)

> That was ages ago.

I think that was the point.