Innovating is "easy", getting it in production is though.
If the Google models are so genius and perfect, and nobody can use or see them, it's like if they don't exist.
That should be very strong quotation marks. I would say that it is the other way around. We should be glad that not everything is immediately turned into a product.
Bingo. Getting it into production is a non-concern for non-entities with no reputation, but Google has a lot more to lose. The big guys watch and wait, and use their sizeable wallets when the time comes. I have no doubts that Apple is going to eat Meta's lunch soon, for example — a lunch Meta didn't even realize was there, for all their innovation and go-to-market.
Google puts all kinds of things into production, then takes them down again in a year. The reputation is already that google puts out experiments
They are terrified of another “people labeled as gorillas” incident. Not of later canceling the product, they don’t care about that.