This idea that ChatGPT is better than the models that Google has is false; but I understand the perception. Deepmind has far better models than OpenAI, and the

This idea that ChatGPT is better than the models that Google has is false; but I understand the perception. Deepmind has far better models than OpenAI, and the models OpenAI have made are based on the research done at Deepmind. For example, ChatGPT was not the first model trained by RLHF - that was Sparrow by Deepmind. The difference is that Google has been very disinterested in making products out of these systems, and didn't spend any effort to make them publicly accessible. Deepmind is still the leader in AI, and they have much better models - it's just going to take a while for people who don't study ML to realize this because Google hasn't released any of their good models for public use yet (and yeah, I'm not counting Bard, etc because the real model was probably put together by one guy in an afternoon at Google, and the rest of the time working was marketing).