Short answer: Adir Ben-Yehuda says people want answers, not searches, and Google is catching up. Jordan Metzner says he is long Google, expects fewer but higher-intent ad searches, and plans to test the new 3.5 Flash model in Antigravity.
Watch this answer from Episode 43 (starts at 20:48) · Episode 43 notes and transcript
From Episode 43: The AI Product Team Replacement? Inside Autonomy AI’s Live Demo, starting at 20:48.
Sam Nadler [20:48]: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Guys, just to move on, and then, Adir, I'll start with you. I thought this was a fun article. There was a ton of news out of Google in the last twenty four hours. The new AI agents go beyond your standard searches. There's a lot to talk about with Google just recently, but, I'm just thinking about, flight searches and how you could theoretically, immediately set up an agent in natural language. Hey. Let me know when flights to Tokyo get below $600 or something. What do you guys think of the latest feature release across the Google Suite?
Adir Ben-Yehuda [21:20]: Yeah. I think from my perspective, we chose a clear trend. Right? Like people do not want to search anymore. They want answers. Right? They don't wanna see how the sausage is made. They want the sausage. And that's about it. I think I mentioned this like a couple minutes ago about our product we filled, but that's the same thing. So I think it's like it's kind of a brutal irony that like Perplexity and ChatGPT and every like AI startup spend the last two years being terrified from Google into building the like, the Google product that they should have built a decade ago. And I think from that perspective, right now Google is trying to catch up with everyone. Right? So yes, they still have a huge distribution, but now their audience, they're starting to lose a lot of audience and they need to catch up from that flow and make sure that they give the audience what they want, which is effectively the results and not like booing or hyperlinks for that matter.
Sam Nadler [22:11]: Jordan, any comments on this barrage of Google features?
Jordan Metzner [22:15]: Yeah. I'm long, Google. I think they'll figure out how to make it right. At the end of the day, Google always wanted to answer the customer's question. I think it was just like how they answered the question. They were always kind of unsure. That's why they gave you these, like, pages of links. But now it's easier to be more declarative on, like, the answer to things, and it seems like if you just want the answer, then you don't really want the other things around it. It probably will change how their ad model works significantly with probably, like, higher intent in the sense that, like, you may you maybe get less volume but higher intent. Right? So if you're looking for, like, mortgage broker near me, you're probably gonna get a pretty high intent there. Yeah. I don't know. I think, like, I've I'm about to test the new 3.5 flash model inside the Antigravity. I downloaded Antigravity. It's an entire new interface copying, the Codex and Claude Code type interface. So I kind of lost the IDE part of it, and I don't know if I can get it back. But, yeah, I'm gonna play with it. As you know, Sam, I'm you know, I've been favorable for the past few weeks slash months to Codex 5.5, but I'm definitely gonna test it out and see if it's good. Rumors are gonna I mean, Internet's kinda going back and forth on it.
Jordan Metzner [23:21]: But, obviously Google
Sam Nadler [23:23]: Rumors more are better, right? Like, the latest rumors are it's better.
Jordan Metzner [23:27]: According to their charts, but, you gotta just test it and play in the game and see, how it feels to you type of thing. But, it's still early. They've got their TPUs. They obviously have the ability to, like, bring token costs down and probably have high throughput. And so I think those two things could provide for a pretty dangerous recipe if they get a really good model on top of that. Yeah.
Adir Ben-Yehuda [23:48]: I think, Jordan, to your point about, like, the mortgage example. Right? If Google won't be able to deliver the mortgage itself, like not the middleman, not the middle person, right? Like actually say, hey, you want a mortgage, here's a mortgage from the best provider. All you need to do is like click next, sign everything, right? Connect your bank account and do that. That's where the world is going. That's the expectations from users that are now the 13 and 14 years old, right? And this is going to be the next buying power in the next decade. So I think that's exactly what they have to do. Otherwise, like from monetization perspective, you're missing the point of where the world is going.
Sam Nadler [24:25]: Alright, guys. Great episode. Adir, where can our viewers find you? Are you on x, LinkedIn, website? Let us know.
Adir Ben-Yehuda [24:34]: Yeah. So first of all, LinkedIn, feel free to connect. Adir Ben-Yehuda, I will connect with everyone and like I'll just love talking and brainstorming with people. And of course, you can go to our website autonomyai.io and, we have a free trial. You can actually have a play around the environment that you can see the entire bells and whistles of the product and have fun.
Sam Nadler [24:55]: Amazing. Great episode, guys, and see you next week.
Adir Ben-Yehuda [24:58]: Thank you.
Jordan Metzner [24:59]: Awesome. Thanks, Adir. See you, Sam. Thanks, guys.
Adir Ben-Yehuda [25:01]: Thank you. Bye.
