Keep pulling the thread on Andrej Karpathy.
Former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic.
In December 2025, OpenAI made a strategic decision to abandon its video model, Sora, to focus its resources on other areas.
At its I/O 2026 event, Google announced Omni, a new family of generative AI models designed to be 'anything-to-anything' and truly multimodal.
Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, describing it as a '24/7 personal agent that helps you navigate your digital life'.
Google announced Antigravity 2.0, a new standalone desktop application designed as an agent-optimized experience for coding.
As a demonstration of its capabilities, Google used Antigravity 2.0 with 93 subagents to rebuild the core framework of a working operating system in approximately 12 hours.
The Gemini app's monthly active users grew from 400 million in May 2025 to 900 million in April 2026.
The total number of tokens processed monthly across all of Google's services increased from 480 trillion in May 2025 to 3.2 quadrillion in April 2026.
There are rumors of a faction within Google, led by Sergey Brin, that is dissatisfied with the company's AI progress and has formed a 'strike team' to accelerate research into self-improving AI.
The speaker concludes that Google's current AI strategy is to simultaneously pursue two different paths to AGI: Demis Hassabis's approach focused on world models and robotics, and a competing approach focused on self-improving coding agents.
Google acquired DeepMind in 2014 for $500 million.
Google's first competitor to ChatGPT, a model named Bard, was considered to be a low-quality product upon its release.