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along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days ago

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

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Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

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along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 days ago
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Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
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    I think it was 2017.

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      Yea, and the main discovery being transformers (GPT predecessor). That allowed for the groundbreaking technology of AlphaFold to come into being, for which a Nobel prize was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (who just left Google DeepMind to join Anthropic).

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      Okay my bad, thx.

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