Comment by Arainach
16 days ago
>It’s kind of crazy that they have been slow to create real products and competitive large scale models from their research.
Not really. If Google released all of this first instead of companies that have never made a profit and perhaps never will, the case law would simply be the copyright holders suing them for infringement and winning.
It's not even that. It's way easier to do R&D when you don't have a customer base to support.
Also think of how LLMs are replacing web searches for most people - Google would have been cannibalising their Search profits for no good reason