Andy
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It reached a high of around 328 when it was running around, you know, high 200s somewhere around,
fairly recently but all of that was driven by Gemini 3 and the shot heard around the world was when Gemini 3 came out along with a bunch of other user available tools
that exploit the capabilities of Gemini 3 plus VO3 and Nanobanana and everything else.
So Google is really on fire right now and its stock price is going.
Cathie Wood, a major investor with ARK Innovation Funds, invested $55 million in Google just these past few days.
Okay, so she's placing a big bet on the future of Google and how far we've come since just a couple of years ago when we were thinking they were behind the eight ball.
There was one shining moment, though, which happened recently, and I hesitate to congratulate Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi, but... No, no, don't, you can't, you can't.
The side effect of that was that anybody who was in that audience, and I don't know what the gender mix was, anyway, they would have left that saying, wow, women are leading AI.
They are the ones who...
Can I throw in one important bit of news here before we go on to the main topic, which is part of the musical chairs that are happening at the top levels of AI development.
And I wanted to talk quickly about a fellow, John Gianandrea, who recently was the head of AI at Apple.
And before that, he didn't join Apple until 2018.
Before that, he was at Google.
over all of AI and search.
So he was one of the topmost people at Google.
He moved over to Apple to run their AI, and he's out now.
Tim Cook reportedly lost confidence in him after these repeated delays on improving Siri.
And there's a new fellow who's coming in, also from Google,
His name is Amar Subramanya, and he previously spent 16 years at Google, where he was the head of engineering for Gemini Assistant prior to his departure.