Sigh, I don't understand why they had to do the $500 billion announcement with the president. So many people now wrongly think Trump just gave OpenAI $500 billion of the taxpayers' money.
In Communist theoretical texts the term "propaganda" is not negative and Communists are encouraged to produce propaganda to keep up morale in their own ranks and to produce propaganda that demoralize opponents.
The recent wave of the average Chinese has a better quality of life than the average Westerner propaganda is an obvious example of propaganda aimed at opponents.
Larry Ellison is 80. Masayoshi Son is 67. Both have said that anti-aging and eternal life is one of their main goals with investing toward ASI.
For them it's worth it to use their own wealth and rally the industry to invest $500 billion in GPUs if that means they will get to ASI 5 years faster and ask the ASI to give them eternal life.
I don't know why people are ignoring this and posting hyperbolic statements like "it's all over for OpenAI and Google".
One of the cheaper Gemini models is actually only 8B and a perfect candidate for a release as a FOSS Gemma model but the Gemini 8B model contains hints of the tricks they used to achieve long context so as business strategy they haven't released it as Gemma FOSS model yet.