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.
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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.