The silence is deafening.

Google watches over the last few months a flat out assault on the Pareto curve from American and Chinese companies. Release after release pushing the boundaries of frontier intelligence and price/performance.

And the response from arguably the biggest AI research labs in the world by headcount is Flash 3.6.

What do you do when you are given essentially unlimited resources and still find yourself falling behind?

Start your own openrouter.

I wonder whether this is more the fault of Hassabis or Pichai. They are clearly both less capable than Altman or Amodei.