Google isn’t an AI-first company despite Gemini being great

Any time I see an article quoting a Google executive about how "successfully" they’ve implemented AI, I roll my eyes. People treat these quotes with the same weight they give to leaders at Anthropic or OpenAI, but it’s not the same thing. Those companies are AI-first. For them, AI is the DNA. For Google, it’s a feature being bolted onto a massive, existing machine. It’s easy to forget that Google is an enormous collective of different companies. Google was made by one of the sub companies. Google is the same as every huge company out there forcing AI use down their teams' throats.