Also, Google owns the entire vertical stack, which is what most people need. It can provide an entire spectrum of AI services far cheaper, at scale (and still profitable) via its cloud. Not every company needs to buy the hardware and build models, etc., etc.; what most companies need is an app store of AI offerings they can leverage. Google can offer this with a healthy profit margin, while others will eventually run out of money.
all this vertical integration no wonder Apple and Google have such a tight relationship.
Google's work on Jax, pytorch, tensorflow, and the more general XLA underneath are exactly the kind of anti-moat everyone has been clamoring for.