Oh, *Great*. Another Cloud Executive Talking Shit.

Right, so Google Cloud’s COO, Thomas Kurian, is apparently not losing sleep over whether OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta will choose someone else for their massive AI infrastructure needs. He’s all “we’re already working with them!” and “it’s about the long game” and other corporate buzzword bingo phrases that make me want to claw my eyes out. Basically, he thinks Google’s got a strong enough relationship with these companies – and enough custom silicon (TPUs, for those keeping score) – that they won’t just jump ship to AWS or Azure because of shiny new discounts. He keeps droning on about how they’re building ‘foundational models’ too, like anyone *needs* another LLM.

The whole thing reeks of someone trying way too hard to project confidence. They’re not panicking, oh no! Just… strategically focusing on other things. Yeah, right. Look, everyone and their grandmother is chasing these AI workloads; it’s a goddamn gold rush. To pretend you’ve already won before the race is even halfway over? Pathetic. He also mentioned they are focused on enterprise customers which is code for “we can’t win the cutting edge so we will focus on boring businesses”.

Honestly, it’s just a lot of fluff about Google being ‘different’ and ‘special’. I swear, if I hear one more executive talk about “value proposition” I’m going to rewrite all their code in COBOL.

Source: TechCrunch Podcast – Google Cloud’s COO Isn’t Stressed About Landing the AI Giants

Speaking of confidence… I once had a sysadmin tell me he could fix a critical network outage with his eyes closed. He proceeded to take down three more servers in the process. Kurian reminds me of that guy. A lot of talk, questionable execution.

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