Accusing Google of slowing down the field is laughable. Google has opened up a ton of AI stuff, in every category imaginable, from Inception (pre-trained model), Street View House Numbers (giant dataset), gemmlowp (infrastructure for fast matrix multiplies), deep dream (implementation of a specific deep learning technique), all the way to TensorFlow (complete production-ready neural net framework with examples and a free graduate-level university course to go with it). And of course they&#x27;re publishing open access papers for everything in addition to the code releases. Furthermore, they&#x27;re also employing core contributors who continue to maintain important libraries like Ceres Solver, Eigen, and Keras, just to name a few.<p>Google has even open sourced DeepMind&#x27;s previous most impressive achievment, the Atari player. Based on that track record it&#x27;s probably only a matter of time before the Go player is released. I&#x27;d expect it not long after the upcoming match, if they win.