[krn]

I am a big fan of Alphabet as a company, but this is how I read the first two paragraphs...

> When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010, many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decades away from being a reality.

Translation: "We were not able to see what the founders of OpenAI saw back in 2015".

> Now, we live in a time in which AI research and technology is advancing exponentially. In the coming years, AI - and ultimately AGI - has the potential to drive one of the greatest social, economic and scientific transformations in history.

Translation: "Now we live in a time in which AI research and technology has advanced exponentially thanks to the great achievements by our competitors – and we clearly feel left behind."

[auggierose]

Right. You know that DeepMind did AlphaGo, right? It made its entrance in 2015.

[krn]

And how does that compare with what OpenAI has accomplished since 2015?

I'm not blaming DeepMind here.

It was Google's job not to start loosing ground to Microsoft in the age of AI.