> Google is held hostage by their current revenue model (ads, ads, ads) and their belief that it can't carry over to AI-based products.
What tells you that Google thinks that ad-based monetization can't carry over to AI-based product?
What tells you that Google thinks that ad-based monetization can't carry over to AI-based product?
To me it felt like maybe they were saying one thing, while doing another, to attempt to calm investor nerves as they try to play catch-up.
I felt most the entrenched folks were so consumed by trying to develop their AI to be ethical that they allowed OpenAI to run laps around them.
How the next decade unfolds in the AI arena will be most interesting. I wouldn't have thought Google could ever be knocked of their throne as dominant search engine in the space previously, but I now feel they have never been more vulnerable than they are now.