Google is also a Cloud Provider. Cloud is now ~18% of Google. While it is an advertising juggernaut. Cloud is also rapidly growing, so the local models simply fit as AI research and dev and getting more people on Gemini models. They /are/ advertising, effectively :)
replyI wish they were :) But the gemini models are so unstable in API that I can not even use them for production.
replylocal models still need information retrieval.
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