> Project Zero's mission is to make 0-day hard. We often work with other companies to find and report security vulnerabilities, with the ultimate goal of advocating for structural security improvements in popular systems to help protect people everywhere.
Why they say they exist and why they actually exist are two different things entirely. There’s not a single corporation (except maybe B corps) that spends money like this without a competitive agenda. Off the top of my head are a couple obvious reasons for PZ: to help with recruitment, to give the company some good press, to make their competitors look bad, or to fix their own Android exploits before anyone else knows.