[dansquizsoft]

> owns it's own models, hardware, large corpus of data, talent and network effects

How's that talent been working out for them the last few years?

[benterix]

As it happens in large orgs, with mixed results. The biggest irony being the whole Transformer architecture being actually conceived at Google, only to be implemented as a product/service by another company.

[icepush]

This is relatively common historically. Two examples I can recall to mind without doing any research are Xerox/Apple and IBM/Oracle. I can only imagine there must be millions of other instances.