Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders

(twitter.com)

46 points | by BlueBerry2001 13 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • lubujackson 5 hours ago ago

    Giogle sunsetting has reached its final form...

  • voakbasda 8 hours ago ago

    Nearly a million users? Bah, small fish…

    • Nextgrid 7 hours ago ago

      Considering a lot (all?) of AI is currently being sold at a loss, I wonder if all that outpouring of interest is exactly the reason why they're changing course, as it would've otherwise been too expensive to offer.

      It could've also just not been ready for prime time and couldn't actually live up to its promises, so they decided that shelving it was less of a reputational impact than releasing a defective product.

  • prtmnth 4 hours ago ago

    New product added to the Google Graveyard

  • MichaelZuo 8 hours ago ago

    This is such a bizarre decision that I’m curious who in the org chart made the call.

    • hadlock 7 hours ago ago

      Probably someone who realized "build your own apps" means "empowering users to build competing apps that don't send marketing telemetry back to google"

      • sixothree 3 hours ago ago

        I have a saying about google products - they are not allowed to exist if they cannot capture data in a way that is unique to that specific application.

    • cromka 6 hours ago ago

      Why do you care who over why they did that?