Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the Gemini AI model during Alphabet’s Q4 2024 earnings call, comparing it favorably to DeepSeek's AI models. He emphasized the end-to-end optimization and cost per query focus of Gemini 2.0 Flash models, highlighting their superior performance and increasing potential use cases as costs decrease.
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