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How are those room temperature superconductors going? Still non-existent I see :)

Sure, it's likely what happened. Even if PayPal open sourced everything tomorrow, it wouldn't be useful. PayPal's competitive advantage is in its banking licenses and existing customer base. You can't build your own PayPal even if they gave you all the code.

Short answer is no, cause Google's development is funded by ads, and not by charging manufacturers. If my tinfoil hat wasn't in the washer, I'd say "you pay with your privacy". That is important for a small percentage of people like investigative journalists, sure, but the vast majority are more than happy to give Google their data.

Bad title. How did Google blow it? Their recipe was to take open source software, put a web UI on top of it, get people to use it to either serve ads or to charge businesses for productivity tools.

They're also pretty clear that they won't release the weights or code for Bard or Imagen.

Google should (and likely will) lay off more. Now that they don't need to hire as much, their HR department is a prime target for elimination. Maybe they can replace those useless humans with Bard.