a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy

a16z Podcast

• Episode: a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
• Website: a16z Podcast
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• Duration: 00:28:59
• Published: 2015-05-30 05:20

Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an expression of its machine learning expertise -- or a way to distribute it, and provide easier access to it. Evans joins the pod to pick apart all the latest machine learning-driven tech from Google as it hosts its annual developer party I/O. What’s become very clear this year, Evans says, is that for Google all the really cool stuff isn’t happening in Android, it’s happening in the Cloud. Finally, what’s next in VR from Google, and how it plans to tackle the developing world.