Google is doing what OpenAI did 3 years ago. They should have just made it open to try.
I know they don’t want to get another bad PR, especially when people start comparing results with other generative AI providers, but it’s too late to play safe.
>Does anyone at Google come into work actually thinking about “organizing the world’s information”? They have lost track of who they serve and why. Having worked every day at a startup for eight years, the answer was crystal clear for me — — I serve our users. But very few Googlers come into work thinking they serve a customer or user. They usually serve some process (“I’m responsible for reviewing privacy design”) or some technology (“I keep the CI/CD system working”). They serve their manager or their VP. They serve other employees. They will even serve some general Google technical or religious beliefs (“I am a code readability expert”, “I maintain the SWE ladder description document”). This is a closed world where almost everyone is working only for other Googlers, and the feedback loop is based on what your colleagues and managers think of your work. Working extra hard or extra smart doesn’t create any fundamental new value in such a world. In fact, in a bizarre way, it is the opposite.
That’s pretty much every big company or public organization.
The conquest is done and the moat is in place, they live and work for themselves.
The few cases when their moat starts to fail, they just take it easy first then they step on the gas pedal to fix it and realize nothing happens.. then they panic and star to learn their organization is a giant mount of mediocrity incapable of anything new.
Then they just increase prices, buy some competitors and everything is fine again in the kingdom.
I know they don’t want to get another bad PR, especially when people start comparing results with other generative AI providers, but it’s too late to play safe.