the magic was that it was free, only OpenAI can afford to do it after selling out to Microsoft for near unlimited compute resources. Google was too afraid of ne

the magic was that it was free, only OpenAI can afford to do it after selling out to Microsoft for near unlimited compute resources. Google was too afraid of negative PR to do it themselves at first, they should have spun their chat bot out into a startup that wouldn't hurt their core brand. Google had an internal ChatGPT equivalent for over a year