Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AI - And Remote Work Is Why

Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO and executive chairman at Google, said his former company is losing the AI race and remote work is to blame. From a report: 'Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning,' Schmidt said at a talk at Stanford University. 'The reason startups work is because the people work like hell.' Schmidt made the comments earlier at a wide-ranging discussion at Stanford. His remarks about Google's remote-work policies were in response to a question about Google competing with OpenAI.

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