The evidence indicates that the TPU marketplace caused a ton of friction and hampered Google Brain’s ability to innovate. They got merged with Deepmind after al

The evidence indicates that the TPU marketplace caused a ton of friction and hampered Google Brain’s ability to innovate. They got merged with Deepmind after all. Google’s golden years / Bell Labs years came from plumbing ads monopoly proceeds into blue sky projects. Contrast with Bytedance / Tiktok, which ruthlessly out-competed Facebook etc in the marketplace for attention. Googlers don’t want to actually build a good product and compete for users, they just want what suffices to feed their personal nerdy interests.