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This seems pretty incredible but Im mostly surprised Google is dipping their toes into this domain at all. Feels fairly outside the Google wheelhouse. I could u
by thinkingkong 2y ago
This seems pretty incredible but Im mostly surprised Google is dipping their toes into this domain at all. Feels fairly outside the Google wheelhouse. I could understand Alphabet having another company provide this kind of functionality but it just seems out of place.
Who are they competing with?
- spankalee 2y agoI wouldn't think of this as a full-fledged business yet, but as a way for the Operations Research team to get their work tried out in the real world. If they're really improving the state-of-the-art, to the degree that real money is saved, and the industries are big enough, these APIs will probably get used a lot and moved out of research or licensed.
- nerdponx 2y agoIt also makes sense to continue diversifying away from ads and generative AI.
- mlawrenson 2y agoThey have a strong OR team who has been building an excellent open source solver (OR-tools) for more than a decade. It makes sense to start trying to commercialise this work. It's interesting seeing them do it through problem specific APIs though.
- verdverm 2y agohttps://developers.google.com/optimization https://developers.google.com/optimization https://github.com/google/or-tools https://github.com/google/or-tools