It's hard to bet against Google now, and Sundar deserves his flowers when a year ago everyone was proclaiming the death of Google.
They've caught up and even surpassed Open AI.
They've caught up and even surpassed Open AI.
Sounds like ChatGPT has 10 million (paying?) subscribers across their products. Does Google have an analog subscription service ("AI Premium" sounds like one, but I've heard no publicity about their subs)? If they don't have a direct analog, has Google also surpassed ChatGPT with some kind of productization of their AI offerings? If they have, can someone educate me on what that/those products are? I realize AI is, for better or worse, baked into every Google product.
Maybe there're add-ons in, for instance, GCP for those offerings that companies are leveraging, but just trying to understand if this is another case where Google has actually pulled back ahead tech-wise, but still hasn't figured out how to productize it.
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From what I can tell, (I don't use ChatGPT) Google has every feature OpenAI has, and then a lot more included in other Google products.
Google may not have as many distinct paying AI customers because they get it for free (e.g. college students) or as part of another subscription.
However model capabilities, and especially now that they're integrating Gemini into Google Search (which was a disaster initially, but improving now) the Googlefying is happening.
It'll be curious what they do with projects like Imagen and Veo though.
Every Google Workspace customer is getting access to the Gemini lineup. That's a pretty big user base