[Google DeepMind Reportedly Plans to Lay Off Over One-Third: Pro Updates Paused Short-Term, Resources Shift to Flash] According to monitoring by Beating, Google DeepMind is planning further restructuring, potentially laying off one-third or more of its employees. GDM currently has approximately 7,000 to 8,000 staff, and the restructuring will focus on streamlining redundant positions and roles that do not align with actual work. A more significant change lies in the model strategy. In the short term, Google has no plans to update the Pro model and will reduce investments in flagship models of the same tier as Fable and Opus, reallocating more resources to Flash, which is lower-cost and faster to iterate. This may be related to the resources GDM can access. In the most recent evaluation year, GDM's overall OKR score was only 0.5/1, making it difficult to secure additional resources for large-scale model training in recent times. Google's core businesses, such as Search, YouTube, and Gmail, also require substantial TPU resources. Another internal detail might explain why the user experience of Google's Gemini model has been subpar: GDM's core team has reportedly never truly treated Gemini as a primary model for daily use, while non-core teams were still required to use Gemini. [Original Link]