Wouldn't this be a demonstration of the downsides of the anticompetitiveness of monopolies?
Not sure that's the right way to look at it, given that Google's huge head start in capital and talent did not prevent AI competition at all. It's a demonstration of reasonable, non-problematic dynamics between smaller and larger companies. (Of course, there's an implicit risk here, the folks at Cruise probably worked harder and more passionately than Waymo staff too.)
What is anticompetitive about it? The comment above is literally claiming they’ve been outcompeted.