Google's isn't even good enough to call it half baked
Google has a problem where they let OpenAI get way ahead of them in terms of institutional knowledge and product capability, and with the number of people who really understand how these LLMs work being countable on one hand, no amount of money they throw at the problem can bridge that gap.
The smart thing to do would be to develop slowly and not release anything until they have something good - but they have to show something to their investors, so that's not an option. They have to release something in a short amount of time, and they simply don't have the capability to release something on that timetable that doesn't suck.
Google has a problem where they let OpenAI get way ahead of them in terms of institutional knowledge and product capability, and with the number of people who really understand how these LLMs work being countable on one hand, no amount of money they throw at the problem can bridge that gap.
The smart thing to do would be to develop slowly and not release anything until they have something good - but they have to show something to their investors, so that's not an option. They have to release something in a short amount of time, and they simply don't have the capability to release something on that timetable that doesn't suck.