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Google still has it's own platforms. If we take a look at last generation consumer AI's, voice assistants, Google definitely beat Microsoft, and not only because Cortana sucked.

Microsoft may dominate the AI market for office stuff soon, but for general purpose language models Google still has a great shot, especially when it comes to mobile platforms

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The problem is that Google's model relies almost entirely on advertising...and AI will simply be almost impossible to wrap into that model. Microsoft doesn't really have that handicap.