[williamstein]

I wonder if Google has not yet released an API due to a desire to keep control and also ensure their products (docs, gmail) have a major lead over everybody outside Google? What is their motivation for not providing API access? It can’t be purely due to it being too difficult for them, since they are very skilled engineers.

[hutzlibu]

Because they are still in rush mode, after OpenAI gave them pressure?

So I would say, it is simply not ready yet.

A working internal API is not automatically ready, to be a public facing API.