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In 2014, the project was publicly announced, at the same time that it was spun off to a separate company, Wing.
Wing was publicly revealed in 2014, but it did not spin out then. X’s own materials say Wing graduated from X and became an independent Alphabet business in July 2018.
Full reasoning
X’s official Wing project page says “Wing graduated from X to become an independent Alphabet business in July 2018.” That directly conflicts with the article’s claim that the spinout happened in 2014.
So the timeline appears to be:
- 2014: the project was publicly announced and did early delivery tests.
- July 2018: Wing actually graduated from X / spun out as a separate Alphabet business.
Because the sentence ties the public announcement to the spinout and places both in 2014, it gives the wrong spinout date.
2 sources
- Wing - A Google X Moonshot
Wing graduated from X to become an independent Alphabet business in July 2018.
- Press - Google X
The X press page lists “July 11, 2018 Graduation Day: Loon and Wing Take Flight,” indicating Wing’s graduation/spinout happened in 2018, not 2014.