[derangedHorse]

OpenAI has been making the most noise online because of how open they've made their recent chatbot, but Google has been on this for a while. Earlier this year they had a blog post [1] about LaMDA which doesn't seem too far off in capability from OpenAI's projects. They've also made a lot of other strides in their research [2] that kind of goes under the radar because they haven't been synthesized into products yet (at least not in the ways we'd expect them to).

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/lamda-towards-safe-grounde...

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/

[amelius]

Even if Google has been on it their search engine dominance won't last long if the research is out in the open.

[machiaweliczny]

They have data moat, from Analytics and history of searches