{"id":196464,"date":"2025-12-22T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:57:07","slug":"will-googles-long-game-pay-off-maybe-with-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196464\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Google\u2019s long game pay off? Maybe with this guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">If Google Gemini catches up to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT in the new year, it will probably be because a key exec responds directly to Reddit complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Josh<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Josh Woodward started at Google as a product management intern in 2009. Now, he\u2019s a VP. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/20\/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new profile<\/a> from CNBC, insiders credit his leadership style with getting Google\u2019s best AI products, like NotebookLM and the Nano Banana Pro image generator, out into the world and helping them succeed:<\/p>\n<p>Woodward created a system for employees to flag internal roadblocks to Google Labs team members, who actually resolve them.Externally, he introduced \u201cPapercuts,\u201d which allows users to directly report minor annoyances with Google\u2019s AI products. Woodward frequently posts resolutions himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Respectfully, so what? An AI guy who gets stuff done is a BFD for Google. As The Economist put it, OpenAI beat Google to market with an AI chatbot due to the search giant\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2025\/10\/30\/google-v-microsoft-the-battle-of-ai-business-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bureaucratic inertia<\/a>\u201d from being \u201ca sprawling and stratified global organization.\u201d (Ouch.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">By comparison, OpenAI runs on a partnership model, which gives it a tow from the slipstream of powerful teammates like Nvidia and Microsoft:<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Nvidia and OpenAI struck a major hardware-software alliance. This year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that relationship meant the companies \u201cpushed each other\u201d to develop supercomputers on Nvidia\u2019s end, and ChatGPT on OpenAI\u2019s.But vertical integration has its perks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">For example, while Nvidia provides the GPUs to OpenAI that power ChatGPT, Google engineered its own tensor-processing units, or TPUs, which are more energy efficient:<\/p>\n<p>The TPUs bring Google\u2019s cost-per-AI query way down.They also power Google Cloud, making the service very attractive to customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Zoom out: The Gemini app hit 650 million monthly active users in Q3, nearly double what it was in March. Still, that\u2019s compared to ChatGPT\u2019s 800 million weekly users. But thanks to Nano Banana, Gemini is attracting the very important 18\u201334 age cohort, which it wants to keep away from rivals.\u2014HVL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Google Gemini catches up to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT in the new year, it will probably be because a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-196464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}