alt Hacker News> Don't fall for it.
The vast majority of people here have no exposure to investing in OpenAI.
It was cool to dunk on OpenAI for being a non-profit when they were in the lead, but now that Google has leapfrogged them and dozens of other companies are on their tail, this is a lame attack.
We should want competition. Lots of competition. The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competition, and did so because they tiptoed around antitrust legislation and made everyone think they were the underdogs.
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This. Root for them all!!! Benefit from diversity, price competition, and the innovation driven by competitors snapping at each others heels, driving very long hours for those teams. The whole of humanity benefits from this.
Is Google actually in front? I know Google keeps publishing impressive benchmarks but developers who are the most engaged and demanding users of LLMs keep choosing to use Claude instead. My uninformed take is Google is optimizing to the benchmark more vs. building a better product, which matches my overall impression of management at Google.
It's statistically unlikely to not own Microsoft stock, either directly or indirectly.
> The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright
...the company that invented the transformer architecture?
"The biggest heist of all would be if Google wins outright, trounces the competition, and did so because they tiptoed around antitrust legislation and made everyone think they were the underdogs."
Can you break that out a little? Did they avoid antitrust legs on AI or do you mean historically?