[MrMorden]

How did Microsoft and OpenAI force their hand? Google could just as easily not waste money on AI, use the corresponding lack of notice-me-sempai demands from their products that their users use AI everywhere as a powerful differentiator, and deliver the difference to shareholders.

[nunez]

They got punished hard in the markets after ChatGPT 3. Many saw (still see) it as a search killer, which is Google's bread and butter. They couldn't not respond.