I do think google will fail and will suck at anything requiring a network effect, but I don't think OpenAI's success is to do with network effects. OpenAI for i

I do think google will fail and will suck at anything requiring a network effect, but I don't think OpenAI's success is to do with network effects. OpenAI for instance has really not cracked social features in ChatGPT - they have a "share link" thing now which they didn't have before but that's really it. Bard doesn't even have any social sharing. The reason OpenAI are in the lead at the moment is their model is way better than anyone else's to the point where it's actually useful for a lot of things. Not just giving a recipe for marinara sauce in the style of Biggie Smalls or other party tricks, proof reading, summarizing, turning text into bullets, giving examples of things, coming up with practise exercises to illustrate a point, giving critiques of stuff etc etc. Lots of things that people actually do it does well enough to be helpful, whereas in my experience so far, other models are just not quite good enough to be helpful at a number of those tasks. So there's really no reason to use them over gpt4.