The two leading labs are already feeling extremely threatened by Qwen & friends, however I think there are tons of enterprises and organizations in the West that don't feel comfortable using Chinese models. I believe these orgs would be all over a near-frontier open-weight model with the Google brand, and it's the perfect way to mess up OAI/Anthropics IPOs. Please do it, Google. submitted by /u/EducationalCicada [link] [comments]