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Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.
TL;DR Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies access to Gemini models through omnibus licensing agreements. The approach is fundamentally different from OpenAI’s ten billion dollar Deployment Company and Anthropic’s 1.5 billion dollar Blackstone joint venture, both of which