[tester756]

>first mover isnt always an advantage

but in this case it is, ChatGPT name is really, really strong, it's like "just google it" instead of "just search the web"

[catdog]

Maybe but it's far from profitable. People largely don't want to pay for it either.

[tester756]

Who cares? profitability is not the most important thing at every stage of the product

[randomNumber7]

I'm not sure because google was by far the best search engine for a long time in the early 2000s and there are a lot of models close to what openai has right now.

[rchaud]

Name recognition only gets you so far. "Just Google it" happened because Google was better than Hotbot/Altavista/Yahoo! etc by orders of magnitude. Nobody even bothered to launch a competing search engine in the 2000s because of this (until Microsoft w/ Bing in 2009). There is no such parallel with ChatGPT; Google, Bing, even DuckDuckGo has AI search.

First mover advantage matters only if it has long-lasting network effects. American schools are run on Chromebooks and Google Docs/Slides, but these have no penetration in enterprise, as college students have been discovering when they enter their first jobs.