Why Google Isn't Chasing Claude Code

Today on the AI Daily Brief, a look at everything Google announced at IO and why it seems like their AI strategy is getting messier and messier, but it also just might not matter because of some of the significant advantages that they are bringing to the table. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Scrunch, Assembly and Section. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe at Apple Podcasts. To learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. A idailybrief.ai is, of course, where you can find out about everything else going on in this ecosystem as well, job opportunities, newsletters, free education programs, paid enterprise education programs. All of that, again, is at aidailybrief.ai. Now one final note, you always had to know that the Google IO recap was going to be a full end to end episode, but that certainly didn't account for former OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy announcing that he had joined Anthropic. To many, if not most, enfranchised AI watchers, this was a bigger announcement than anything that happened on the stage at IO. And so with that in mind, we will certainly be coming back to it tomorrow. But for now, we have a lot of Google to talk about. Today, we are talking about Google IO, which in this particular case is more than just a set of announcements, but a chance to see how one of the biggest labs thinks about AI priorities and where they sit in the AI race. In short, the event was a little confused. Google is doing a ton. There's absolutely no doubt. What it adds up to is a little less clear. And in fact, it seems to me like Google's leadership may have a very different idea than either Anthropic or OpenAI's leadership about what winning the AI race will actually look like. But we need a little bit of background and context before we get into this year's event. Google's history with generative AI in general has been interesting. In the prehistoric times, I e the pre chat g p t times, when very few were paying attention to all of this, Google was ahead simply by virtue of paying attention. Back in 2014, they acquired DeepMind for a then massive $500,000,000, but problematically, it was not their only AI effort. In fact, part of the reason that they were caught flat footed when ChatGBT first launched in November 2022 was that AI strategy wasn't consolidated in a single place. That wouldn't come till later, in fact, and it honestly took a very rough year out of the gate in 2023 for them to figure out that they needed to go through that sort of painful restructuring. Twenty twenty three's IO event was …