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right, but was openai "first to market"? google and amazon have had AI offerings for a while now.

Was apple ever first to market anything?

It’s this simple, something that a surprising number of intelligent people fail to grasp. Apple was rarely the first to it, they just did it well. Google and other giants had the technology but they never made a super powerful chatbot available to everyone with the ingredients they had on hand. Now they’re scrambling.

The iPhone was the first to market for many things including an all-screen phone, multi-touch, full-web browser experience on a mobile device.

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No.

It was the first good device with those features.

But I skipped the first iPhone because at the time, my Palm appeared to be superior.

Both Amazon and Google did not have usable language models prior to ChatGPT.

Certainly ML was used, but not in that particular application.

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