They've made this mistake before, with the cloud

… They've made this mistake before, with the cloud. Years ago, even before AWS existed at all, Borg and related tools were vastly superior to any publicly available cloud system. When I worked there we repeatedly asked management why that wasn't being turned into a business because it was so damn obvious that there was massive value in what had been built. The answer was always that Google could always make more money by keeping its tech private, because ads was such a great business model. That take ... didn't age well. They lost their chance to define what cloud meant and now GCP is lagging in third place. Unfortunately for Larry and Sergey I think the reason they aren't keeping up with OpenAI is actually not business model related, which is why they're going to have a hard time fixing it. They actually told us why they aren't releasing demos already and there's no reason not to take them at face value: they believe AI is literally dangerous and "unsafe" to release. It's been apparent for some time that there's some sort of weird internal purity spiral going on inside Google. …