It's just as likely bad engineering as political bias. There is an assumption that they should be able to catch up to OpenAI and it's likely unreasonable. They

It's just as likely bad engineering as political bias. There is an assumption that they should be able to catch up to OpenAI and it's likely unreasonable. They haven't been working on building a real, direct "LLM product" until recently. OpenAI have been in the weeds on it for quite a while.