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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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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in any event, it's surely different than, say, semiconductors, where know-how, IP, and physical plant represent an enormous moat
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