Google in Talks to Invest $200M into AI Startup (wsj.com)

Google must really be desperate to up their chatbot game. I wonder why; what is the underlying motivation?

And why can't they do it in-house? Did the good ones already take off?

I'm hoping https://character.ai keeps shipping The Amaze, it's the most novel thing I've seen in a long while in the NLP space.

Invest all you want in software, but unless we get bio neural gel packs we’ll be limited to autocomplete, broken customer support bots and wannabe art ais.

Not sure what the GV team is thinking... Cohere doesn't come close to a market leading product.