Who Is OpenAI’s Competition?
For the past few years, consensus has landed on Google being the company that needs to be most concerned about OpenAI. On paper, the corresponding narrative isn’t too complicated. As people turn to ChatGPT to get answers to their questions, Google loses out as not being given the opportunity to deliver the answers. And in the near-term, there may be some truth in that idea. However, when thinking about longer-term competition, OpenAI seems to have a different Big Tech company in mind as its direct competitor. This upcoming potential competitor appears to already see OpenAI as a future threat.
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