The reality with releases like this is that I'm 90% sure most Google bigwigs have never heard of it, and it's misleading to label it as "Google's" in the title.

Yes, it was developed by Google employees, that does not imply it has the full backing of Google, or Deepmind, or GCP. Notably, the website doesn't seem to claim this either.

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Stagnant 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is on Google's github https://github.com/google/ax and the title comes from there.

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yla92 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

While this one seems like an official Google project, some other projects are not, even if it is on github.com/google

A random example E.g https://github.com/google/filament#disclaimer

This is not an officially supported Google product.

	▲	welhoilija 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Does Filament claim that it's Google's in the repo description? It's a valid title.

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ShinyLeftPad 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's built on top of https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate which is not on Google github.

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Mond_ 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair enough, I missed that specific line. The point still stands that I wouldn't expect this to have GDM leadership backing. (If you're planning to use this at all, that matters for how much faith you should have in the product.)

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dudus 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's got a formal announcement on the blog. 4 months ago.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...

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mynegation 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have no insider knowledge but https://x.com/rakyll is working on it and she is tweeting about it and I got the impression there is a quite a team behind it. It looks like an effort in GCP.

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Mond_ 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and one thing to understand about Google is that no AI framework or tool is guaranteed to survive unless it has the explicit backing of Google Deepmind.

"Effort in GCP" is a red flag. (See Gemini CLI, which was shut down in favor of Antigravity CLI.)

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panarky 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Antigravity CLI is far, far superior to Gemini CLI.

Plant many flowers, keep the ones that bloom and stop watering the ones that don't.

	▲	Mond_ 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree on both accounts fwiw.

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foota 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This /looks/ at least more official. Most unofficial Google projects have a disclaimer in the repo.

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varun_ch 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the repo description https://github.com/google/ax is "Google's open agentic orchestrator"

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verdverm 8 hours ago | parent [-]

for comparison/contrast, another very related Google project (one employee) on one of their github orgs that comes with the following disclaimer

> This is not an officially supported Google product. This project is not eligible for the Google Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion

	▲	mpeg 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The project that ax builds on top of does have that disclaimer, and sits on a non-google organisation https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate

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esseph 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>The reality with releases like this is that I'm 90% sure most Google bigwigs have never heard of it

Google has around 200,000 employees. They probably haven't heard of most things Google releases.