Microsoft is handling the AI revolution extremely well.
They see the potential brand damage that comes with a such a product, so they probably just hold less than 50% of the company, to be able to say "this is not us".
Which then allows openAI to experiment and wow people, while google is anxious about showing 10% of its crazy AI capabilities to avoid potential PR disasters.
Agreed. MS has managed this extremely well. They've gone from Tay bot a few years ago to this.
1) they've recognized that none of this could emerge out of a corporate research department of a major trillion $ company. Just too rigid and constrained by day to day business concerns (e.g. Tay bot)
2) they recognized the strategic value to their business regardless of that risk (can't afford to let some more nimble player to leap frog them)
3) they identified a key startup partner that can get results here quickly and bank rolled them (OpenAI)
4) At the first hint of success, they consolidated early investments and are now building out a productive partnership with that partner.
Doing so, they minimize their risk while keeping their options fully open and getting a decent ROI in the process.
Contrast that with Google, which identified the same opportunity many years ago, declined to partner and insisted on doing everything in house, is also a trillion $ company, and is indeed not getting much of note done so far. Google is failing hard here. They are executing the strategy that Microsoft abandoned after Ballmer that wasn't working at all for them.
Which was to be highly secretive, ignore outside innovation, and keep on betting on results from internal R&D instead, all while repeatedly failing at that. So, Google is now saying that they could have done this or that, better, faster, cooler, etc. Except they didn't and haven't. Could have; would have; should have; doesn't count here.
This might just be the wake up call that Google has needed for a few years. Or not. We'll see. Time to put up or shut up for them. My guess is that they will still be figuring out how to respond to this for some time and are completely paralyzed by current events. The prudent thing for MS would be to not wait for that and move full steam ahead. Opportunity of the decade for them to grab some market share. This announcement is a good sign that they are doing that.
Just to add my 2 cents, SEO-infested results add insult to injury. I have now given up on using search and use ChatGPT 70% of the time. I wonder if others are doing the same and this is making SEO spam rank higher
And it wouldn't have been hard to fix this earlier. Simply down rank sites asking to sign up for notifications or showing popups after 5 seconds
What are you talking about? All you have to do is make an A.I. robot dance and crack wise, and your golden. At least that's what the game Borderlands taught me.
They see the potential brand damage that comes with a such a product, so they probably just hold less than 50% of the company, to be able to say "this is not us".
Which then allows openAI to experiment and wow people, while google is anxious about showing 10% of its crazy AI capabilities to avoid potential PR disasters.