Nick Trenkler
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if you're leading in AI, you're shipping every 3 days
release calendar (apr 1-15):
google - 5 days
anthropic - 5 days
xai - 2 days
openai - 1 day
big launches aren't enough anymore
silence is how you lose the lead
we keep watching
google is quietly making a strategic move in the war for scientific talent deepmind just open-sourced "science skills" – a toolkit that lets ai agents natively talk to 30+
what changed under the hood: • vision. replaced the encoder with a lightweight embedding module (single matrix multiply + positional embedding + normalization). the llm backbone now handles visual processing directly • audio. encoder
why he's being criticised: • leadership style called chaotic and impatient • accused of hyping small, step-by-step improvements as if they were major breakthroughs • talent leaks – a former apple exec