...uses a neatly-defined mathematical term to name the company, then rejects the idea of neat mathematics in practice.
Personally I’m hoping that someone smarter than me figures out how to displace existing catalysts like platinum and palladium. Seems like it could be a pretty penny and some positive environmental impact to boot.
If you are Demis Hassabis and want to lead this new initiative:
- Why would you want to report to the CEO of another subsidiary instead of spinning-off another entity within the Alphabet conglomerate?
- You can let the DeepMind team focus in their original areas of expertise.
- You will have a new (and $$$$) budget to hire computational biology PhDs
- With the new entity, you can fail a lot and not make Verily and Calico look bad (inside and out XYZ)
If you are Verily and/or Calico:
- You don't want a newcomer bring the exciting new projects and ruin your projects, budgets, initiatives
- [very speculative] You don't like Hassabis' progress (or is envy of)
- You think this new project will fail and don't this under your umbrella
