I am saying something completely different. The presenter in your YouTube link makes it clear that Julia made the cut for evaluation but that ultimately Swift was the only language left standing. The slides make this less clear as they stop before the final knockout round.

I believe this[0] is the "study" the presenter is summarizing, which further makes it clear that Julia did not in fact "make the cut". Put another way, if we are going to argue that Google said Julia makes the cut, we could just as easily make the argument that Rust and C++ made the cut.

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... w