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Published · transcript-backedJeff Dean: belief
12 Feb 2026 Latent Space Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean
“I mean, I think going to an LLM based representation of text and words and so on enables you to get out of the explicit hard notion of, of particular words having to be on the page, but really getting at the notion of this topic of this page or this page.”
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- Jeff Dean
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Latent Space
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…Yeah. I often tell a lot of people that are not steeped in like Google search history that, well, you know, like Bert was. Like he was like basically immediately inside of Google search and that improves results a lot, right? Like I don’t, I don’t have any numbers off the top of my head, but like, I’m sure you guys, that’s obviously the most important numbers to Google. Yeah. I mean, I think going to an LLM based representation of text and words and so on enables you to get out of the explicit hard notion of, of particular words having to be on the page, but really getting at the notion of this topic of this page or this page. Paragraph is highly relevant to this query. Yeah. I don’t think people understand how much LLMs have taken over all these very high traffic system, very high traffic. Yeah. Like it’s Google, it’s YouTube. YouTube has this like semantics ID thing where it’s just like every token or every item in the vocab is a YouTube video or something that predicts the video using a code book, which is absurd to me for YouTube size.…
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