What a coincident of releasing deep research for your product when one of your main competitors has DeepSeek R1 as their best performant version /s
Seriously, for the past 20+ years it's hard to imagine doing research without Google platform namely Google Search, Scholar, Patent and Book, but now it seems agent AI based on LLM is the way to. In twenty years in the future it will be hard to imagine that doing research without them. But as many people already pointed out Google probably the best company by far to perform this emerging AI based research. In data eco-system terms (refer to any book on data engineering), Google has already perform has the most important data preparation and data engineering upstream activities including data ingestion and transformation. Now given their vast amount of processed data they can just serve it to downstream data analytics or AI for performing research with minimum error/hallucinations as possible. According to Google there is no moat for any companies against open source LLM, but if any company that can has the moat it will be Google itself.
Seriously, for the past 20+ years it's hard to imagine doing research without Google platform namely Google Search, Scholar, Patent and Book, but now it seems agent AI based on LLM is the way to. In twenty years in the future it will be hard to imagine that doing research without them. But as many people already pointed out Google probably the best company by far to perform this emerging AI based research. In data eco-system terms (refer to any book on data engineering), Google has already perform has the most important data preparation and data engineering upstream activities including data ingestion and transformation. Now given their vast amount of processed data they can just serve it to downstream data analytics or AI for performing research with minimum error/hallucinations as possible. According to Google there is no moat for any companies against open source LLM, but if any company that can has the moat it will be Google itself.