The race has always been very close IMO. What Google had internally before ChatGPT first came out was mind blowing. ChatGPT was a let down comparatively (to me

The race has always been very close IMO. What Google had internally before ChatGPT first came out was mind blowing. ChatGPT was a let down comparatively (to me personally anyway). Since then they've been about neck and neck with some models making different tradeoffs. Nobody needs to reach AGI to take off. They just need to bankrupt their competitors since they're all spending so much money.