The unfolding story of AlphaFold2 is interesting—DeepMind just open sourced all of the code. Many saw AlphaFold2 as a tremendously economically valuable thing that might finally justify all the tremendous investment by Alphabet. Why would they just give it all away? 1/
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It's very much the same dynamic as software development in general -- no specific technology is a moat, but solid processes/culture are hard to copy and provide a real differentiating advantage
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I am not sure I fully agree... yes culture and processes are important, but the moats often have more to do with business advantages. Google has great processes and execution, but holding and viciously defending a stranglehold on the advertising market is key.
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Yeah, I get it, but that's what (if anything) is a little surprising here to me. A team of academic rabble had sufficient know-how to successful reproduce what DeepMind did. I don't doubt that know-how and MLops important, but it wasn't moat in this case.
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Still, for businesses deploying AI, it's a barrier, but not one that will last too long, I don't think. Not moreso than for other sw engineering tasks
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