[tartoran]

> How did Google blow their AI lead?

Google is not an "AI company", they just happened to have been 10 steps ahead of everyone but slept on it for too long, now scrambling to catch up..

[upbeat_general]

If by "happened to" you mean pour significant resources for well-over a decade on many different AI research groups then yes, that's accurate. Depending on your definition of AI, it might even be two decades.

In fact, OpenAI was founded largely with the direct goal of preventing Google from being the sole winner in AI...

[Flere-Imsaho]

Alphabet owns DeepMind, who are an AI company. In fact alphabet are lots of things, which is fine.

[tartoran]

Yes, you're right, but Google are not an AI company in the same sense Anthropic or OpenAi are and are focused on their products differently and it kind of shows..