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Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters

Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters

Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google's current models are "a little bit below the frontier" but says he's "100% certain that we will be at the frontier." He didn't share any concrete frontier news to back that up, though. The article Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters appeared first on The Decoder.

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