[chinathrow]

Maybe they're looking for stability and trust Google to be around longer than Antrophic or OpenAI when the storm starts.

[deepfriedbits]

Bingo. They see this as the future commodity it will be. Customers will choose AI providers much way they choose a car: taste, price, a few other factors.

And to your point, Google has a massive balance sheet, produces their own AI chips, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.

[kube-system]

People are not even going to choose their AI providers in the future, it's going to be a part of some other product.

[deepfriedbits]

I could totally see that

[Danox]

Google was the right choice stability and it only cost Apple $1 billion per year that’s pretty much of a no-brainer, and with Apple’s history, they probably will use Gemini for as long as they need it and then use their own model in time.

[cpeterso]

And Apple already has a $20B search partnership with Google they can build on.

[create_accounts]

fair and square, indeed

[nalekberov]

I’ll just put this link here: https://killedbygoogle.com/

[chinathrow]

I am familiar what Google has killed before, but a contract with Apple is not something they'll throw out of the window for no reasons.

[rileymat2]

I may be jaded, but I do not trust Google for product offering stability. Obviously, Apple is a way bigger fish.

[vrosas]

It's not a popular opinion on HN but Google is actually super stable from a B2B perspective. Even app engine (2008) is still kicking.