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Google has a history of keeping its innovations under wraps. The Google File System and MapReduce programming models, for instance, remained proprietary until Google engineers shared them in a 2003 publication (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...). It wasn't until a few years later that the Hadoop project, under the Apache Software Foundation, emerged, providing an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets.

Google's approach to AI advancements follows a similar pattern. Projects like Imagen and Muse boast impressive capabilities but remain locked away, inaccessible to anyone outside of Google. While the company may be a thought leader in the field, the true value of a product lies in its utility. Possessing unique and groundbreaking technology that remains inaccessible to the broader public is comparable to owning an NFT art piece—intriguing but ultimately of limited practical value.