How potentially practical is the theoretical performance?

Why is it not negative? Do they think trump will come to his senses and change his policy to prevent a recession?

I agree it's a hard problem and you need smarter people in power to tackle it.

How to finance the increased costs of manufacturing in the US? Where is the labour coming from, if you still have high employment? What about supply chains in a trade war with reciprocal tariffs?

What do companies get out of this process? I believe there are only 2 things you have to check:
1. Is the chemistry right with the team?
2. Is the person competent enough to solve a task and communicate the solution to you.

You don't need geniuses to work a corporate job.

And their beating OpenAI in price and features.

I think people have to discern between the unbased promises of super human AGI and the actual usability revolution that is happening through LLMs. Now everyone can access complex computing through natural language, we haven't adjusted to this paradigm change yet.

It is! After testing the current 2.0 gemini models on my RAG tasks and also the current top, pro or preview models from several vendors, i'm not sure how they will compete with Google in the long run given these prices.