alt Hacker NewsThe 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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It's got a formal announcement on the blog. 4 months ago.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...
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.
This /looks/ at least more official. Most unofficial Google projects have a disclaimer in the repo.
Yeah especially with their tendency to depreciate stuff they’ve grown tired of
the repo description https://github.com/google/ax is "Google's open agentic orchestrator"
Yeah, anyone should think of this as an experimental side project that may be forgotten in 15min and make careful decisions about using them in production environments.
We have used a few of Google's (smaller) open source projects, and in the last 2-3 years most of them are getting fewer updates if any updates at all. Some became very bad tech debt and we had to spend a lot of time migrating them.
Of course, that is the nature of open source projects (written in the license terms), and there is nothing to complain. But it's important to point out these days Google's open source project are not any more trustworthy than a one man's project in terms of support and maintainability. Personally I would stay away from them as far as possible. Especially if you look at what happened to Android, Gemini CLI etc.
(To be honest, even if it were officially supported by Google, that barely means anything. https://killedbygoogle.com/)
>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.
It is on Google's github https://github.com/google/ax and the title comes from there.