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They are going for large corporate customers. They are a brand name with deep pockets and a pretty risk-adverse model.

So even if Gemini sucks, they'll still win over execs being pushed to make a decision.

Not even trying to be snarky, but their lack of ability to offer products for more than a handful of years, does not lend google towards being chosen by large corporate customers. I know a guy who works in cloud sales and his government customers are PISSED they are sunsetting one of their PDF products and are being forced to migrate that process. The customer was expecting that to work for 10+ years and after a ~3 year onboarding process, they have 6 months to migrate. If my neck was on the line after buying the google PDF product, I wouldn't even short list them for an AI product.

What Google Cloud pdf product is that? I thought my knowledge of discontinued Google products was near-encyclopedic, but this is the first I've heard of that.

But as an enterprise customer, if you expect X, don't you get X into the contract?

That doesn't seem like much of a plan given their trailing position in the cloud space and the fact that Microsoft and AWS both have their own offerings.

Maybe Google is holding back it's far superior, truly sentient AI until other companies have broken the ice. Not long ago there was a Google AI engineer who rage quit over Google's treatment of sentienet AI.

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