Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson argues that internal bureaucracy, rather than a lack of technical capability, is causing Google to lose ground in the AI race. She notes that Google rapidly caught up to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its Gemini 3 model but has since slipped behind on AI coding, coinciding with the departure of prominent researchers including transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper. Olson contends that in a fast-moving AI industry, even brief organizational lag can prove costly to a company’s competitive position.
