[anaganisk]

Baiting healthcare forcussed devs/startups for acquiring? Analyzing how people are building apps using this data to build their own? Free training data for their next product? Amazon is kinda growing in healthcare and maybe Google doesn't want to be behind.

[anon84873628]

Well it certainly was built for some future product, but it was probably released as open source solely so an engineer could have "community contributions" on their promo packet.

[throwaway_qcjal]

I don't believe this would count as a community contribution, which is generally I believe about contributions to Google's community.

While I don't think it's a bad career move, and that may have been part of their consideration, I find the trivialization of the work put in by someone here to open source something they thought would be a positive contribution hurtful.