[gremlinsinc]

yeah they were supposed to have the next big image thing, OMG it can do text, and stable diffusion beat them to releasing something that actually can render text on images, so yeah - there's a lot of young companies iterating way faster than an old guard can muster up the troops and honestly I don't think anyone at Google feels inspired much these days, hard to build some passionate endeavors when your soul is being sucked right out of you.