Also not cancelling things left and right would probably be a better strategy for Google. People used to love them, but complete disregard for their users and impassionate product shutdowns have completely destroyed trust. I wouldn't ever consider building my workflow on anything Google, maybe with the exception of Gmail/Android and whatever they can their office suite now [0].

[0]: I've lost track of their rebrandings.

I have a need for running GPU capable notebooks as part of a processing pipeline. I want a cloud solution, and noticed that Colab Pro is basically the ideal solution for what I need.

Absolutely no way in hell I'm going to make it a critical path if my process, though, because that's exactly the sort of product Google might just shut down with a week's notice because it didn't make enough money that quarter.

OpenAI's product is AI, all else is in service to that.

Google's product is ads, with all else--including AI--in service to that.

> Google who have 50 different things

their bread and butter is search ads, which means they should have second-to-none search quality. but they don't. google knows more about me than my wife, yet fails to give me even remotely relevant ads except for things i have already searched for and usually already purchased or decided against. it's truly remarkable how terrible it is, and has been for decades.