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by benatkin 126 days ago
DeepMind wrote the paper, and while Google's API arrived later than OpenAI's it isn't as late as some people think. The PaLM API was released before the Gemini brand was launched.

Microsoft funded OpenAI and popularized early LLMs a lot with Copilot, which used OpenAI but now supports several backends, and they're working on their own frontier models now.
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Aeolun 126 days ago
Google’s AI is not open by definition because their API’s are such a massive pain to use.
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famouswaffles 126 days ago
>DeepMind wrote the paper

Yeah and it was Open AI that scaled it and initiated the current revolution and actually let people play with it.

> while Google's API arrived later than OpenAI's it isn't as late as some people think.

Google would not launch an API for Palm till 2023, nearly 3 years after Open AI's GPT-3 launch.

Yeah let's not pretend Open AI didn't spearhead the current transformer effort because they did. God knows how far behind we would be if we left things to Google.

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