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clhodapp | on: Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.

That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.

aleph_minus_one | parent
> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.

> That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.

My experience differs: (conservative) companies like stability, so calling some very new model "Preview" is a good idea to make it clear to the customer that this frontier model should be treated as more experimental than the default offering.

ethbr1 | root | parent | next
The problem at Google is their (lacking) process for Preview -> GA.

Maybe it's a consequence of their rigorousness around SRE, but it doesn't seem like there's a plausible and efficient path for that to happen.

Ergo, the only competitive options from Google are ever-Preview products.

clhodapp | root | parent | next
Yup. Adopting a month-old Postgres release is quite aggressive. It's much more prudent to start considering adoption after it's had six to twelve months of battle testing.

Adopting a month-old AI model version for new development is the default industry expectation right now. Adopting a six month old model is a recipe for having to migrate to a new one almost immediately, when it hits EOL.

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clhodapp | root | parent
That's fine, but it should still have the same technical availability level
utopcell | root | parent
What makes you think it doesn't?
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