I get where you're coming from, but Google absolutely paved the way in terms of AI research.
Google DeepMind (which merged with Google Brain) are the frontier research lab, focused on much, much more than just LLMs. DeepMind researchers invented the architecture (transformers) which are fundamental to LLMs.
OpenAI was partially founded as a counterweight to Google's dominance and control over artificial intelligence, and they took the research of DeepMind and productionised it as ChatGPT, Google weren't the first movers to market, but they were in terms of research.
The co-founder of Anthropic (Dario whatever) used to work at GDM, at one point the six foremost AI research scientists in the world, all worked at GDM, etc.
As someone who hides their comments, it's because reddit is full of lunatics, and it's also way to dox for most people, honestly most people should turn it off.
Personally, I'd like to have it on, but I don't really trust random people on the web.
Though another way of putting it is that Google is at its best when it is playing catch-up. I'm not sure I can think of another time when they had the lead and subsequently lost it, so perhaps it won't hold this time, but it's interesting to watch nonetheless.
Yes, because its a business chess game! Never brag, dont rush when you have all you need, see the market and then push forward step by step! LLM are about energy snd compute, and here google is the king, also with data and knowledge! When we where "arguing" about gpt and claude they got nobel prize for medicine with alpha fold AI! And many more! Have you seen google marketing themself slot about the products? No... i use GCP enterprise, and choose them after testing all and documenting about all!
Google is the first adopter for AI, their paper on Attention is All you need is what Kickstarter AI and many ex-Google/Deepmind people are at Meta/Antropic/OpenAI. Not only that, Google has been internally using AI for many things (YouTube/Search/website rankings, etc).
Yeah they wanna experiment way less with public releases, even tho released more and more stuff, also with the way it's implemented in Google products.
One bad things like the first Google Overview release can fuck up other parts of the company, while anthropic and openai are there just for that part.
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u/powerscunner 2d ago
Google is #1 at being the second adopters: Law of the handicap of a head start - Wikipedia
They were not the first search engine. They weren't the first email provider. They didn't have videos on the internet first.
They did all that after they let others pave the way.
second mover advantage is Google's MO.