[ankmathur96]

This is a completely absurd claim - if you’ve ever taken a class on modern day systems, you’d know Google is the source of many significant papers that inspired several huge open source projects that power almost every company that needs to scale.

“All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions” - woefully misguided. Google is hiring academia leaders left, right, and center and growing a collaborative environment that’s innovating. They’re discovering a lot of stuff in-house on this team. They’re building an incredible open-source library with almost 100K Github stars for machine learning.

@self driving, they hired people building projects and are making it into a production self driving car. The latter is a far less constrained problem.

@assistants, The Google Assistant can do way more than Alexa. Not seeing how this is a me too game