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Alphabet is becoming the Bell-Lab, Xerox Park of this generation?

- Invent a lot of cool tech (self driving car, AI) and lets others (Uber, Tesla) to make $ from it.

It's hard to say google invented either of those things with a straight face. Advanced the state of the art, certainly.

Depends on if their top employees get poached by some of the other companies. In that way, it could happen.

Alphabet did not invent the self-driving car or AI lol. C'mon dude, most of Alphabet is PR to recruit the <<best and the brightest>>. Half of the stuff they start up at X they shut down in a year and then don't even release the source.

As much as I want your analogy to be true, it just isn't.

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