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Comment on: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
> Dark clouds hovering over Google's AI game.It's not really clear what their gameplan is. From the outside, it looks like they're asleep at the wheel. Qwen/Deepseek/Kimi are crushing them from the cheap-and-open side, and they're not remotely competitive with Mythos/Sol or even plain-vanilla Opus on the "premium" tier.Gemini does actually have its uses, but they're very very marginal and niche.From day one everybody was saying that Google would eventually capture the AI market, but it looks more remote than ever. Maybe Hassabis' personal inclination towards AI-for-science, and physics/chem