[robotresearcher]

The researchers at all the other companies care about the blog write-ups and research papers. The Transformer architecture, for example, came from Google.

Sharing fundamental work is more impactful than sharing individual models.

[yellow_postit]

Depends on which impact and horizon you’re talking about. Advancing fundamental research — I’ll give that to Google and Microsoft Research

Advancing products that use AI and getting a consumer/public conversation started? That’s clearly (to me) in OpenAIs court

They’re both impactful, interlinked, and I’m not sure there’s some real stack ranking methodology.

[ethbr1]

Depends on ones relative valuing of "able to use the state of the art" vs "improving state of the art."

[aantix]

Because of Google’s walled research strategy, they now appear to be an antiquated company.

Gemini does nothing. Even if it were comparable to GPT-4, they’re late to the party.

OpenAI is blazing the path now.