[joe_the_user]

Sure, Risk-averse to cannibalizing existing revenue is a standard problem for any market leader and someone competing with Google could be nice.

But in this case, nothing prevents and everything points to Google, an AI leader, presenting it's results in a more chatty format - but still with links and advertising.

The thing is, Open AI didn't wheel out the very impressive ChatGPT because they had found a way to search more cheaply than Google. They brought out their thing 'cause it was impressive and earlier effort actually monetize the already impressive GPT-3 essentially failed and they're spending quite a bit giving many, many people easy access to their tech. This is what happens when a company doesn't have a business model - give stuff away to get attention 'till you figure things out - sometimes it works, it worked for Google when they were getting started. But it's harder when what you're selling isn't cheaper, just slicker and when your competition has a strong business model.

[edgyquant]

Yeah plus Google had a huge edge they should have been preparing to weather any short term damages to revenue etc and kept innovating on what they were good at.