alt Hacker NewsGoogle is the Xerox Parc of AI, but unlike Xerox they decided to enter the ring with Gemini which is now quite good.
(For those who don't know the history, Xerox Parc and SRI before them invented the modern PC GUI and a lot of other modern PC stuff in the late 70s and early 80s, which Apple copied and then everyone else copied from Apple. Xerox paid a lot for R&D but never used it at all since it would cannibalize their copier business, classic innovators dilemma.)
Meanwhile Google is murdering their websearch business with chatbots. Rightly so, as that business needs to die, or at least materially transform.