Bard vs. ChatGPT: Where did Google spend All the Money over the last 10 years?

I think that Googles AI plans were very much based around long-term research. This meant that OpenAI had the opportunity to go to market with something that worked very well quite quickly.

Google are also very much aware of reputation problems that you find in the search engine industry, so that also held them back from releasing Bard sooner. They wanted to do more QA before release.

But I think a lot of people have been frustrated seeing research pages from Google, showing amazing feats of AI, with nothing for us to play with. I don't think they knew how much of a backlash that has created.

While it's still not as good as Chat GPT 4, Bard has gotten significantly better recently. I tried at launch and was seriously underwhelmed, but tried a few queries this week and came away pretty impressed.

I don't understand why they launched with such a hamstrung and small model. Everyone's first impression was basically "Google's AI sucks" and that is going to be tough to shake.

I mention this because the linked thread is almost a month old.