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I wouldn't say big tech was "trounced" by OpenAI. Advances in LLMs are driven by the research community. OpenAI is a small, well-resourced organization with the sole purpose of quickly deploying and hyping state of the art AI models. Big tech naturally has a slower product development cycle - and will make full use of LLMs in due time.

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> I wouldn't say big tech was "trounced" by OpenAI.

I mean not a single “big tech” company is offering any LLM products not powered by Open AI. It’s been almost 3 years since GPT-3 was released. I’m not sure they can catch up at this point. And I think the GPs point was a good one: big tech threw billions and billions at personal assistants. Nothing innovative was delivered.

Aren’t google search and google translate powered by transformer models?

Probably, but using a transformer isn’t Open AI’s advantage. A widely available language model with “emergent abilities” is Open AI’s advantage. The fact that it’s a transformer is more of an implementation detail.

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