Comment by davesque

Yep. If Microsoft somehow overtakes Google from the back with Bing and ChatGPT, it'll be the tech coup of the century. And it's so fascinating how Google's position as an AI think tank put them at a tremendous disadvantage. They didn't cut a deal with OpenAI because why should they? After all, they originated much of the research that led to GPT3. But then they didn't really do anything with it at all because they didn't have to. They were still printing money so effectively with their tried and true search product. They really are a victim of their own success. Frankly, that's how competition is supposed to work. I'm definitely getting a sense of schadenfreude watching all this.