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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by twobitshifter on Monday July 20, 2026 @07:59PM (#48986452)
Why did Google give Android away for free?
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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by idontwantthis on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:06PM (#48986910)
But they could do that because it didn’t cost them hundreds of billions of dollars to create Android and they could retain 99% of control over end users.
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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by cdud3 on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:45AM (#48990085)
Because Android was the door to there services. That's very much the same situation we have with model creation right now. China understood it, they act on it and as a result they are winning.
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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by Danox on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:25PM (#48999750)
To service their ad Empire and the same thing applies to creating the Chrome browser and Google maps…
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