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The author can’t figure out how a company can monetise an API? Monetisation clearly isn’t the problem here. It’s possible that they’re going to launch a new product incorporating this, or more likely incorporate it into Gemini.
I covered this in this comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/24536634
Google basically shuttered Tenor and heavily funded the replacement, which is showing sketchy early signs of ads.
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Huh, well if you couldn't see a way to make money with it, maybe you shouldn't have bought it...
i'm sure that the site's acquisition was always about user tracking data and never about it being 'profitable' itself.