Anti-aging researchers talk a lot about how they could do so much more with proper funding. I mean, they would say that, but that doesn't mean it isn't true - after all, the odds that the optimal amount of funding was that small is ... small.
Also, Google bring credibility and, perhaps, greater competence/strategy at approaching moonshots.
Google's announcement, Time magazine rather sensationalist headline.
In any case, it's nice to know that Google set its sights to "challenge ... aging and associated diseases". Apple's Tim Cook:
For too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking. Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have to be this way.
One more step towards "world optimization".