The rumor is also that Meta is looking to lease Gemini similar to Apple, as their recent efforts reportedly came up short of expectations.

I don't know why I am downvoted but Google has data, expertise, hardware and deep pockets. This whole LLM thing is invented at Google and machine learning ecosystem libraries come from Google. I don't know how people can be so irrational discounting Google's muscle.

Others have just borrowed data, money, hardware and they would run out of resources for sure.