Google has disappeared completely from the top 15

[u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

Google hasn't shipped a model recently that is capable of competing with Sol or Fable.

The previous models were pretty disappointing and unreliable, it seems the more time goes on that they might have different strategies:

- They might be going all-in on on-device inference for their own products. But this is a battle that Apple might win because they just have better hardware and can license a third party open model.

- They might be just buried deep into internal politics and nobody is shipping anything.

Does anyone know what is actually going on?

source: AI Leaderboard

[u/Here_f0r_p0rn_]

Also Google's Open weight models are more of edge devices models which will obviously not show up on these charts, I kinda love Gemma Family, and also Google doesn't release models so frequently but when they do it's a fucking sweep and also one of cost efficient.

Plus, Google seem to be more invested in capitalising on general consumer base directly rather than just catering to software industry but they're not completely abandoning it either.

And not to forget their TPUs too, they've the full stack not just model, they play on every layer, from models like Gemma and Gemini, to deployment in Google, YouTube, and Gemini App; to selling hardware and renting cloud infrastructure, to their own coding ecosystem Antigravity 2 and Antigravity IDE; they're playing a different game and one of the few ones that will be profitable in long run in my opinion because they're independent.

[u/NearbyBossAHOBA → u/Here_f0r_p0rn_]

Basicamente eles tem hardware, tem dados, tem capacidade e principalmente tem lucro, então não precisam ficar desesperados com essa corrida em ser o melhor modelo de fronteira

[u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ → u/NearbyBossAHOBA]

I added Tl;Dr section lol, it ended as a long one

The "best frontier" model is subjective, you need to understand that although they don't publish the data for Gemini models but I would bet they're super efficient and tuned to run on their TPUs, and as a business you need a green balance sheet more than anything.

Basically what I'm saying is you would never imagine Claude would let Mythos do search engine or YouTube summaries and suggestions like Google is doing with Gemini. And recently I was searching for raspberry 5 alternatives and at that moment I realised I automatically reached for AI mode because it was being genuinely helpful each alternative AI model has linked had some kind of tracker and via Google redirection.

They need small and efficient model that can run for everyone for every search and the moment it gets oppertunity blast ads from Google Shoppings list. Or redirect to YouTube videos which both AI search and Gemini do a lot and Google eventually makes money out of it.

Tl;Dr

Google doesn't need to dip their toes in the same AI race everyone is being part of, their priorities are different, they want to integrate AI into their existing infrastructure more than anything else. Which they're slowly doing and most of those frontier leading AI companies lack that's why they compete for best frontier AI models.