Crazy how we went from google feeling like they were a dinasour who could never catch up to openai, to almost feeling like the opposite in terms of being able to catch up. All within just 1-2 years.
Google (generalist/media) > Anthropic (code) > x.AI (excellent price/quality balance).
ChatGPT is a bit late now (even behind DeepSeek with DeepThink I believe)
Thats like innovators dillema in action. Google had one of the strongest ML teams years before majoriry of AI companies was founded, but no desire to make a product that will compete with their search.
And now they actually have competitors.