Why would they have secret unreleased models? Surely Google can find another team of code monkeys to whip out a frontend if there is money to be made. I don't

Why would they have secret unreleased models? Surely Google can find another team of code monkeys to whip out a frontend if there is money to be made. I don't think Google is going to pull back from making some more money. I think the most likely option is that they have a bunch of talented academics who get paid on time to work on what interest them - but they're the stereotypical large inefficient company and they can't coordinate the effort of productionizing some cool models before the competition.