I think that Googles AI plans were very much based around long-term research. This meant that OpenAI had the opportunity to go to market with something that wor

I think that Googles AI plans were very much based around long-term research. This meant that OpenAI had the opportunity to go to market with something that worked very well quite quickly. Google are also very much aware of reputation problems that you find in the search engine industry, so that also held them back from releasing Bard sooner. They wanted to do more QA before release. But I think a lot of people have been frustrated seeing research pages from Google, showing amazing feats of AI, with nothing for us to play with. I don't think they knew how much of a backlash that has created.