Google is still drip-feeding AI into Search, Maps, and Translate
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It feels Microsoft is at least one year ahead with this Prometheus model and product work with integrations into Bing and Edge. In an interview with the Verge Microsoft CEO mentioned they already had the raw search optimised Prometheus model in mid 2022. So for Google to train a similar model optimised for search including sources will take quite a while.
It will be interesting to see if Bing market share will grow. I will certainly try it out when it is my turn on the waitlist. Google on the other hand said nothing on availability.. Showing really they were caught unprepared and that this presentation was an act of desperation.
I wonder whether this is an inherent conflict in search and information systems , and so we'll see the same results with the newer LLM based tools ?
OpenAI has no such legacy business to defend and so was free to take the risk.
Not sure how 100k google employees will be able to match that degree of training data.
This thing is taking off like wildfire. Google has very good reason to be terrified. This kind of growth is quite likely indicative of a major disruption.
The scale they have means that they could reduce that "advantage" in a matter of hours if they wanted to. 100m monthly active users vs Google 4.3b daily active users.
The compute they have can train more/better models than they can, and they have been working on this for longer than OpenAI has (see their keynote in 2017, Chatbot that got the guy fired because he thought it was sentient)
Microsoft helps here, but all of those things still exist. Bing is tiny compared to Google.
Microsoft will "win" the productivity tools (Teams, Office, etc.) for the same reason Google will win search.
Happy to be quoted on this in a year or so.
I’m not so sure they have the Datacenter capacity with GPU’s to make that happen overnight, even if they have the software. They have an advantage in the demand side of that equation, but the supply side (datacenters, capacity) is a real challenge not to be overlooked.
> Happy to be quoted on this in a year or so.
Look back at the last 5-10 years and you'll have you answer. They're too busy sabotaging their search engine, cramping ads in youtube and cancelling products. Too big to fail but not too big to stall
In fact, Microsoft has better track record in releasing and commercializing new tech. Google is good at half assing new tech and throw them in a pile of garbage later.
It's also difficult to integrate their ad business in chat model
It’s very easy to imagine tools like ChatGPT following a similar arc, only harder to discern if it’s not legally required to mark when advice is sponsored.
This is what I got with Kagi which is why I switched to it. I'm pretty hard to please and always have nits so it's rare I'd cheerlead for a brand but the product is great. If anything my fear is that it'll be like everything else that was good at first: pressure to grow skyrockets the price, or they succumb to the pressure to mine/sell data, ads, etc. Time will tell.