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You seem to be confusing market capture for novelty. This almost certainly is not intended to be taken as some greenfield thing from perplexity, same goes for google
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Perhaps, but if you're already inside GCP it's nice to have something easy to turn on.
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Not just that, if your company approved and gets billed by X cloud, it's quite difficult to request another product from Y cloud
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> version of this easily reproducible technology

so you'd prefer indefinite first-mover monopolies?

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And all the people involved are making millions to billions. Maybe we're the schmucks.

I don't know how we're going to convince the best and brightest minds of the future to do real work when grifting, corruption, and trend chasing pays the real money. Why try to cure cancer when you can make a guaranteed bag building drones that kill people, gambling apps, or ponzi scheme financial engineering?

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