I find the narratives fascinating. Earlier this year everyone was saying Google was right not releasing an AI chat bot because Sydney was so poor for Bing. The

I find the narratives fascinating. Earlier this year everyone was saying Google was right not releasing an AI chat bot because Sydney was so poor for Bing. Then GPT4 came out and everyone shifted to saying Google is late to the party. All of this happened in like the span of two weeks. You can see the comments here on HN as examples. What's interesting is that both of these statements can be true! Google has long had its moonshots and yet Open AI blew them out of the water. Amazing really. Even more crazy is that the LLM tech was invented at Google so they, in retrospect, "squandered" the early opportunity... Why did they? I would read that 'management' book. This really shows you the power of startups and the out of nowhere existential risk even giants face.