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Cynical take - mostly to appear like a diverse tech company with lots of different products and services so they don't get regulated for their strength in the s

Cynical take - mostly to appear like a diverse tech company with lots of different products and services so they don't get regulated for their strength in the search advertising market.

aurareturn 2y ago
I think occam's razor might suggest they're trying to diversify their revenue so if search declines, they have fallbacks.
- faceloss 2y ago
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- DiscourseFan 2y ago
  could be both
kridsdale3 2y ago
As a Google engineer, I think it's two things: - Great for recruitment: You're the most talented $SKILL in the world? Come to the team that is pushing humanity forward in all the ways that matter. - Larry and Sergei actually care about humanity, and being a billionaire is kind of a side-effect of what they would have done anyway.
- bawolff 2y ago
  Its not like google is the first company to have a will R&D department. Xerox invented the mouse. AT&T invented unix & c. Etc
- ipsum2 2y ago
  Not sure if you know this, but Larry nor Sergei run Google right now.
tim333 2y ago
This is being done by Deepmind and Deepmind's main founder has always said he wants to use AI to advance basic science. I think that is maybe why they fell behind on chatbots for a bit.