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Google figured it can't beat OpenAI technically, but they sure know they can beat them financially and infrastructurally.


Is infrastructure and scale not an expression of technical ability? It should have been obvious that Meta and Google would bury a tiny company with less than 1000 employees given the amount of capital they can leverage for compute, talent, and data. Google literally invented GPT.


> Google literally invented GPT

And if it wasn't for OpenAI, it would still be locked into Google's basement.


In technical terms they're on par. But you're correct about Google being able to bet on their decades of infrastructure


I bet OpenAI has 100x more customers than Gemini, and Gemini recent growth rate will not change this picture anytime soon.




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