> Early last year or so I've read that people were lamenting on how Google at the time was struggling to monetize Deepmind products
The problem was that all of the ML/AI products would demonetize Google's flagship moneymaker.
Everybody is trying to use ML/AI to undo all the damage the Google monopoly on search has done to the web ecosystem. Microsoft is fine with this for now because Google has the dominant position.
It is pretty clear, however, that this is not a sustainable situation. At some point, people are somehow going to want to turn ML/AI into cash extraction from end users. How to do that isn't obvious.
The problem was that all of the ML/AI products would demonetize Google's flagship moneymaker.
Everybody is trying to use ML/AI to undo all the damage the Google monopoly on search has done to the web ecosystem. Microsoft is fine with this for now because Google has the dominant position.
It is pretty clear, however, that this is not a sustainable situation. At some point, people are somehow going to want to turn ML/AI into cash extraction from end users. How to do that isn't obvious.