[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.

[auggierose]

Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever. It put AI truly on the map. OpenAI is just a corollary to that, and would not exist without DeepMind in the first place.

[nicetryguy]

> Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever.

Right, but the cashier at McDonalds is using ChatGPT for night school.

[krn]

That's probably true, because OpenAI was formed just two months after AlphaGo defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui.

But Google has missed a lot of opportunities since then, and is now trying to catch up.

[scottyah]

What has OpenAI accomplished other than a lot more publicity for AI? If I've been following the story right, Google and a few others have created all the tech breakthroughs and OpenAI just created a way for common folk to play with it then sold out to Microsoft.

[krn]

Microsoft has been an investor in OpenAI since 2019[1].

Now Samsung is considering replacing Google with Bing as the default search engine on all Galaxy phones[2].

I think that's a big accomplishment for OpenAI. And it's still and independent company.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partners...

[2] https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phones-tablets...