Google’s parent company Alphabet is winding down operations at AI-fueled ag intelligence startup Mineral, just over a year after it emerged from stealth, and switching to a licensing model. Incubated in Alphabet’s moonshot technology lab X, Mineral officially debuted in January 2023, promising to deliver “foundational technologies to help other companies go faster” by combining data from unmanned rovers laden with cameras moving through farmland with “large, multimodal, unstructured sets of the ...