In its investor call, CEO Sundar Pichai said “I think I see this as a chance to rethink and reimagine and drive

 In its investor call, CEO Sundar Pichai said “I think I see this as a chance to rethink and reimagine and drive 

Search to solve more use cases for our users as well. It’s early days, but you will see us be bold, put things out, get feedback and iterate and make things better.” Does that sound like a man with a plan?

It’s understandable that Google would not want to slaughter the golden goose by prematurely merging Search with whatever half-cooked general-use LLM they have sitting around. They’ve become experts

 at deploying highly specialized AI, task models that do one or two things. But when it comes to making a big move, their comfortable position has saddled them with inertia.