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Especially now that they are second in the race (behind Anthropic) and lot of free-to-download and free-to-use models are now starting to be viable competitors.

Once new MacBooks and iPhones have enough memory onboard this is going to be a disaster for OpenAI and other providers.

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I'm not sure they're scared of Anthropic - they're doing great work but afaict running into some scaling issues and really focused on winning over developers at the moment.

If I was OpenAI (or Anthropic for that matter) I would remain scared of Google, who is now awake and able to dump Gemini 2.5 pro on the market at costs that I'm not sure people without their own hardware can compete with, and with the infrastructure to handle everyone switching to them tomorrow.

Codex Research Preview appeared in my account in the early AM.

Google is going to lap them. The hardware muscle they have has not even started flexing

What do you mean, Google is number 1

Thrid for coding, after Anthropic, and Gemini, which was leading last I checked.

OpenAI are second in the race to Anthropic in some benchmarks (maybe?), but OpenAI still dwarves Anthropic in distribution and popularity.

That's slowly changing. I know some relatively non-tech savvy young people using things like Claude for various reasons, so people are exploring options.

Very, very slowly.

OpenAI vs Anthropic on Google Trends

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=...

ChatGPT vs Claude on Google Trends

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=...

This is such a big difference, thank you for sharing it, I didn't expect the gap to be _that_ huge

I wonder how much of this is brand name? Like Kleenex. Non-tech people might not search for LLM, generative AI, etc. ChatGPT may just be what people have heard of. I’m assuming OpenAI has a large advantage over Anthropic, and the name helps, but I bet the name is exaggerating the difference here a bit. Not everyone buys Kleenex branded Kleenex.

You are not going to find Claude when googling for ChatGPT

While mac unified ram inference is great for prosumers+ I really don't foresee Apple making 128GB+ options affordable enough to be attractive for inference for the general public. iPhone even less so considering the latest is only at 8GB. Meanwhile the best model sizes will just keep growing.

Third behind Anthropic/Google. People are too quick to discount mindshare though. For the vast majority of the world's population AI = LLM = ChatGPT, and that itself will keep OpenAI years ahead of the competition as long as they don't blunder away that audience.

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