Yes, OpenAI is the leader in the field in a literal sense: once they do something, everyone else quickly follows. They also seem to ignore usurpers, like Anthr

Yes, OpenAI is the leader in the field in a literal sense: once they do something, everyone else quickly follows. They also seem to ignore usurpers, like Anthroipic with their MCP. Anthropic succeeded in setting a direction there, which OpenAI did not follow, as I imagine following it would be a tacit admission of Anthropic's role as co-leader. That's in contrast to whatever e.g. Google is doing, because Google is not expressing right leadership traits, so they're not a reputational threat to OpenAI. I feel that one of the biggest screwups by Google was to keep Gemini unavailable for EU until recently - there's a whole big population (and market) of people interested in using GenAI, arguably larger than the US, and the region-ban means we basically stopped caring about what Google is doing over a year ago already. See also: Sora. After initial release, all interest seems to have quickly died down, and I wonder if this again isn't just because OpenAI keeps it unavailable for the EU.