{"id":242437,"date":"2026-08-09T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/googles-westinghouse-bet"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:06:50","slug":"googles-westinghouse-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/googles-westinghouse-bet","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Westinghouse Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-westinghouse-bet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the article \u201cGoogle\u2019s Westinghouse Bet\u201d published on Asimov\u2019s Addendum, Tim O\u2019Reilly presents an alternate thesis regarding the organizational shifts, talent departures, and strategic shakeups at Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>While industry reports (such as a analysis by SemiAnalysis) interpreted the DeepMind restructuring as evidence that Google is falling behind in the \u201cfrontier model race\u201d against rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, O\u2019Reilly argues that Google is not losing the race\u2014it is choosing to run a different one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article \u201cGoogle\u2019s Westinghouse Bet\u201d published on Asimov\u2019s Addendum, Tim O\u2019Reilly presents an alternate thesis regarding the organizational shifts, talent departures, and strategic shakeups at Google DeepMind. While industry reports (such as a analysis by SemiAnalysis) interpreted the DeepMind restructuring as evidence that Google is falling behind in the \u201cfrontier model race\u201d against rivals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}