Restructuring comes after the pink slip
Alphabet’s sheer generosity provides many follow-up opportunities for articles such as: Over 12,000 jobs saved Across its various properties.For one, we have seen proportionally deeper cut Thanks to the team developing the up-and-coming Fuchsia OS and the project in Google’s Area 120 incubator. We now know that the remnants of Area 120 are taking over, and that attacks on Instagram, TikTok, and others are becoming more likely.
in the letter I received TechCrunchClay Bavor, Vice President Google Labstells Area 120 members that the company is heading the lab squarely toward artificial intelligence applications, with only three projects underway. aloud, a foreign language overdub tool for videos. Checks, a privacy compliance assistance tool for app makers. His third project aimed at Gen Z users, led by the team that created a third-party app called List.
“For nearly seven years, Area 120 has been a source of bottom-up innovation across Google, and many lessons have been learned from it about how best to pursue zero-to-one opportunities,” Bavor writes. “But with the unprecedented opportunities ahead of us, we must move to a more opinionated and focused model of new product development.”
Aloud and Checks seemed to stand out for their potential as standalone products, while other Area 120 items game snacks When touring bird Streamlined into existing products such as Google Chrome, Cloud, Commerce, Search, and Shopping.
A Liist-led project seems odd given that Google quietly acquired the company last year. The app allowed users to bookmark a variety of locations, such as parks, museums, hotels, restaurants, or places they saw on social media, including Instagram and her TikTok. Stay away from search related tools.
TechCrunch also announced that List co-founder David Friedl LinkedIn The page where he was working on “GenZ Consumer Products” in Area 120.
Bavor told staff that Area 120 will be led by Elias Roman, the division’s managing partner. Roman will also be responsible for a number of “applied AI” products, reporting directly to Josh Woodward, his director of senior product management at Google Labs.
The race to legitimize artificial intelligence products to a bemused public seems to be going well. We’ll have to see if Google can actually pull off more than just store tricks and waiting HR mishaps.
