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They dropped the ball on cloud and need to catch up and now it's AI. It's kinda interesting how being ahead with data center infrastructure and also AI research
by tdb7893 2y ago
They dropped the ball on cloud and need to catch up and now it's AI. It's kinda interesting how being ahead with data center infrastructure and also AI research didn't lead to them being ahead on those products
- lvl155 2y agoTo be fair, they did have the lead as late as 2018. It’s just they treated it like it was their PhD thesis. Didn’t protect their IP at all and let all their talent leave.
- sitkack 2y agoGoogle is a playground funded by Ads and Ads make so much damn money that nothing can compete, even internally. If I were an activist investor, I'd make ads its own company. I was the FTC, I'd make ads its own company.
- whiplash451 2y agoAds fund Waymo.
- ripped_britches 2y agoAnd what are the other companies? Just GCP? Why separate those?
- xbmcuser 2y agoIn my opinion the Ai and absorbing all knowledge part of Google was Larry Page after his health scare his focus and priorities changed about actually living his life not Google. I think he had also realized what was happening with Google and so wanted Alphabet as an umbrella organisation but in the end he gave it up and let be run as a normal company.