When Larry Page and Eric Schmidt asked me to create a new effort to win developers to Google’s platform efforts in 2007, I laughed out loud.
What platform?
Android hadn’t been released or disclosed, and Google Search wasn’t a developer platform at all.
Eric and Larry were far-sighted in their thinking - and at the heart of their mental model was open source.
When we launched Google I/O, we named the conference “I/O” because input/output was the first thing a young programmer learns (think “hello world”), and we loved the double play of the terms I/O also to encapsulate our Google way of open-source thinking. I/O would also stand for
Innovation in the Open.
I never thought back then that only a few years into the future, humanity would develop software that would provide reasoning and intelligence available to all.
We are truly at the foothills of the singularity, as Demis likes to say. Never before has it been so important for us to innovate in the open so all of humanity benefits from this extraordinary technological breakthrough.
I could say, “the sky is the limit”. An ancient text, however, says it better:
Gen 11:6 “Then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them”
@sundarpichai@DavidSacks@Eric_Schmitt
there are a lot of benchmarks that suggest 5.6 sol is the best model in the world right now, but the most reliable way to tell is that elon is obsessed with me again
@levelsio built a prediction market for @levelsio's everything chart.
grades his past calls (75% hit rate) and lets anyone bet on the ones still live (eu/acc, GDPR, AC wars and i hope more coming).
is he right again? 👇
https://t.co/Ieb7jRyoGU
Does Europe need to finance multiple spaceports, with different sizes and characteristics, to create a system in which Kourou can be complemented by smaller, decentralized spaceports?
yes....