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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by Arainach on Saturday February 07, 2026 @01:47AM (#46921857)
>It’s kind of crazy that they have been slow to create real products and competitive large scale models from their research.

Not really. If Google released all of this first instead of companies that have never made a profit and perhaps never will, the case law would simply be the copyright holders suing them for infringement and winning.

Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by zipy124 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:21PM (#46929369)
It's not even that. It's way easier to do R&D when you don't have a customer base to support.
Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by drewstiff on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:23AM (#46932742)
Also think of how LLMs are replacing web searches for most people - Google would have been cannibalising their Search profits for no good reason