Google's best AI models are six months behind the state of the art on coding capability, and talent is leaving, but the company is far from doomed even after Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO of DeepMind Wednesday and Chief Scientist Jeff Dean left to found a startup. The contest is now about using AI to accomplish real world tasks, with the benchmark being: Does it work and what did it cost? Users can click on Google's Gemini diamond to use natural language to search email and YouTube or get AI feedback on writing in Google docs, and Gemini Spark is the early iteration of that concept. Google's suite of offerings will transform into more powerful systems touching every piece of technology in users' lives, including physical machines and eventually robotics. The underlying models will not be state of the art, but users will not care because they will work. Google won't use the top models because using the most powerful AI would be astronomically expensive, and there probably isn't enough compute power in the world. The most important product person may be cofounder Sergey Brin, who has no official role but wields massive power through supervoting shares and status. Google needs smart, technical people to solve challenges in model development, architecture and efficiency, which shouldn't be an issue.