Comment by Sol-
5 hours ago
Why? These models just leapfrog each other as time advances.
One month Gemini is on top, then ChatGPT, then Anthropic. Not sure why everyone gets FOMO whenever a new version gets released.
5 hours ago
Why? These models just leapfrog each other as time advances.
One month Gemini is on top, then ChatGPT, then Anthropic. Not sure why everyone gets FOMO whenever a new version gets released.
I think google is uniquely well placed to make a profitable business out of AI: They make their own TPUs so don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money to Nvidia, they have a great depth of talent in building models, they've got loads of data they can use for training and they've got a huge existing customer base who can buy their AI offerings.
I don't think any other company has all these ingredients.
While I don’t disagree that Google is the company you can’t bet against when it comes to AI, saying other companies are done is a stretch. If they have a significant moat then they should be at the top all the time by then which is not the case though.
ChatGPT's moat is their name and user habit. People who are using it will keep using it. All/most of the products are _good enough_ for the people who already got used to using them, that they arent exploring competitors.
Microsoft has the chance of changing habit the most by virtue of being bundled into business contracts that have companies with policies not allowing any other product in the workplace.
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Agreed, too early to write off others entirely. It'll be interesting to see who comes out the other side of the bubble with a working business.
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The TPU are a key factor. They are the most mature alternative to Nvidia. Only Google cloud, Azure, and AWS enable you to rent their respective AI chips. Out of those three, google is the only one to have a frontier model. So if they have a real advantage they're not exposed to the financial shenanigans propping up neo clouds like Coreweave.
The bear case for Google was always the business side would cannibalize the AI side. AI makes search redundant which kills the golden goose
100% the reason I am long on Google. They can take their time to monetize these new costs.
Even other search competitors have not proven to be a danger to Google. There is nothing stopping that search money coming in.
Considering GPT 5 was only recently released, it's very unlikely GPT will achieve these scores in just a couple of months. If they had something this good in the oven, they'd probably left the GPT 5 name to it.
Or maybe Google just benchmaxxed and this doesn't translate at all in real world performance.
They do have unreleased Olympiad Gold-winning models that are definitely better than GPT5.
TBD if that performance generalizes to other real world tasks.
GPT 5 was released more than 3 months ago. Gemini 2.5 was released less than 8 months ago.
If not this model, Google at some point is going to get and stay ahead just because they have so many more people and compute resources they can throw at many directions while the others have to make the right choices with how they use their resources each time. Took a while to channel their numbers into a product direction but now I don't think they're going to let up