[kornish]

I imagine part of it is that businesses built on Tensorflow play nice with Google Cloud at their TPUs, but mostly I suspect it's just a mindshare thing. If Google becomes the place that all the top data scientists want to work – such that they don't even have to be poached – that's a Very Good Thing for them. It probably doesn't hurt if those data scientists come in already familiar with a tool Google uses internally.

Kind of reminds me of the genius move by Tesla to crowdsource collection of self-driving car information. Experts want to get where they have the data to train their models, and if Tesla propels itself ahead of the pack for number of miles of real-world training data, then that makes them very attractive to talent.