“As part of the Raghavan reorganization, Google is also moving the Gemini App team (the one handling Google's competitor to ChatGPT) under AI research group DeepMind, a move that might be kind of smart in the "hand the AI stuff to the AI people" kind of way, but also suggests that there is a degree of disarray at the company that isn't going to get better in a hurry.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Moving the Gemini App team under DeepMind might be kind of smart, but it also suggests there is a degree of disarray at Google that is not going to get better in a hurry.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Requiem for Raghavan, paragraph 23.
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- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “in a hurry”
- Deadline state when assessed
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- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
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Conditions
- suggests (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- a degree of (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- might be kind of smart (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- suggests
- a degree of
- might be kind of smart
- in a hurry
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- Deadline state when assessed
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, Requiem for Raghavan
As part of the Raghavan reorganization, Google is also moving the Gemini App team (the one handling Google's competitor to ChatGPT) under AI research group DeepMind, a move that might be kind of smart in the "hand the AI stuff to the AI people" kind of way, but also suggests that there is a degree of disarray at the company that isn't going to get better in a hurry.
- Where
- paragraph 23
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-requiem-for-raghavan-c62cd5-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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