[jasonwilk]

How marginally better was Google than Yahoo when debuted? If one can develop AGI first within X timeline ahead of competitors, that alone could develop a moat for a mass market consumer product even if others get to parity .

[smiley1437]

Google was not marginally better Yahoo, their implementation of Markov chains in the PageRank algorithm was significantly better than Yahoo or any other contemporary search engine.

It's not obvious if a similar breakthrough could occur in AI