so there are two narratives here: (1) Google is behind and playing catchup, slow and bloated and weighed down by bureaucracy they are sinking (2) Google has h

so there are two narratives here: (1) Google is behind and playing catchup, slow and bloated and weighed down by bureaucracy they are sinking (2) Google has had this tech behind doors for years but not released it because of the risk of public perception and regulatory blowback. Now under the cover of OpenAI and Stability they can do it. The second one seems plausible but I can't help being struck by how much their AI driven products seem to have stagnated over the last 5 years. Google Assistant (or whatever it is called now) seems worse at understanding my simple requests than it was 10 years ago. Things that seemed magical and worked very reliably like "remind me in 3 months that I left the oil can behind the paint tin" now fail so often I've stopped trying. Combined with the lack of detail in the blog post, I'm inclined to lean towards (1) - even if I do believe thew actual AI knownhow is buried somewhere inside Google, I think it is so many layers from anybody who could deliver it in the form of a product that it's effectively like it isn't there.