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The researchers at all the other companies care about the blog write-ups and research papers. The Transformer architecture, for example, came from Google.

Sharing fundamental work is more impactful than sharing individual models.




Depends on which impact and horizon you’re talking about. Advancing fundamental research — I’ll give that to Google and Microsoft Research

Advancing products that use AI and getting a consumer/public conversation started? That’s clearly (to me) in OpenAIs court

They’re both impactful, interlinked, and I’m not sure there’s some real stack ranking methodology.


Depends on ones relative valuing of "able to use the state of the art" vs "improving state of the art."


Because of Google’s walled research strategy, they now appear to be an antiquated company.

Gemini does nothing. Even if it were comparable to GPT-4, they’re late to the party.

OpenAI is blazing the path now.




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