[basch]

A the time, it was a free language translation tool. You weren't paying for transformers in 2017.

[steve1977]

True, but that doesn't mean that Google did not already have intentions to monetize it if possible.

[basch]

You would think, wouldn’t you?

And yet they waited until ChatGPT was a thing and threw Bard together overnight in response.

[steve1977]

Fair point ;)