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jiaosdjf 8 hours ago [-]
It seems this isn't just MCP but a plugin into the Google ecosystem that allows side-by-side edit conversation with realtime changes similar to Gemini / Google AI Pro.
What I don't understand is, why would Google allow such direct competition to their own AI subscription? Looking forward to a community/open version of this tho it sounds like it needs something hosted to work.
DonsDiscountGas 4 hours ago [-]
Presumably because it makes the office suite more competitive. Would you rather use Google docs or Microsoft office? I think most people use docs because it's free at a small scale, but plenty of enterprises use it as well. And it's much harder to switch office suites then LLMs so they're better off trying to lock people in on the data side rather than the LLM side.
staticman2 3 hours ago [-]
> What I don't understand is, why would Google allow such direct competition to their own AI subscription?
They are much better off with you using "Google docs" then if Claude or someone else were to launch "Claude docs".
sote8361 7 hours ago [-]
Google doesn‘t really need the money and this way they get more training data and google workspace users
flowerthoughts 8 hours ago [-]
Same reason they sponsor Firefox; it helps keep anti-competition lawsuits at bay?
Raed667 8 hours ago [-]
Or lack of trust in Gemini and fear that people move their workflow to whatever Claude supports and being slowly left out?
jacquesm 7 hours ago [-]
Never let me find out that Google sends data to Anthropic or OpenAI.
simianwords 9 hours ago [-]
Ironic that this is even news. AI can do anything but probably not fight bureaucracy at Google.
I would’ve expected a connector to Google docs at least 1 year back
What I don't understand is, why would Google allow such direct competition to their own AI subscription? Looking forward to a community/open version of this tho it sounds like it needs something hosted to work.
They are much better off with you using "Google docs" then if Claude or someone else were to launch "Claude docs".
I would’ve expected a connector to Google docs at least 1 year back