Google has to be freaked out at the rapidity with which OpenAI and Microsoft are taking their generative language models into various markets. Look at the way Microsoft is (fairly successfully) grabbing attention-share through the efforts of Peter Lee and others in healthcare with GPT-4, e.g. - Google is floundering in comparison (despite having a huge head start, particular through DeepMind). I don't know that I'm convinced Microsoft can actually make good on the promises they are suggesting, but it's be a daft bet on Google's part to assume they can't.
I agree. The only reasonable explanation (from the outside) is that a bunch of Legal AI doomers put guardrails and red tape everywhere inside DeepMind, preventing anything that’d look like a go-to-product.
