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I think it's inarguable that OpenAI have at least at times over the last 3 years been well ahead of other companies. Whether that's true now is open to debate,

I think it's inarguable that OpenAI have at least at times over the last 3 years been well ahead of other companies. Whether that's true now is open to debate, but it has been true. This suggests they have either: made substantial breakthroughs, that are not open, or that the better abilities of OpenAI products are due to non-substantial tweaks (more training, better prompting, etc). I'm not sure either of these options is great for the original mission of OpenAI, although given their direction to "Closed-AI" I guess the former would be better for them.

ants_everywhere 2y ago
I left pretty soon after a Google engineer decided the internal chat bot was sentient but before ChatGPT 3.5 came out. So I missed the entire period where Google was trying to catch up. But it seemed to me before I left that they were struggling to productize the bot and keep it from saying things that damage the brand. That's definitely something OpenAI figured out first. I got the feeling that maybe Microsoft's Tay experience cast a large shadow on Google's willingness to take its chat bot public.