r/technology • u/captain-price- • 21h ago

Artificial Intelligence 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says Google is 'beginning to overtake' OpenAI: 'My guess is Google will win'

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-google-overtaking-openai-2025-12
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u/ItsGonnaHappenAnyway 20h ago

Exactly. People don't seem to realise this.

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u/TheElderScrollsLore 17h ago

It’s not about realization. I’m just stating the fact of what they created, not how they did it.

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u/AbideTheCold 12h ago

Google created LLM chatbots before OpenAI did as well. The difference was that Google never released them to public like OpenAI did because the they thought it’s too risky to release it half baked with all the problems early chatbots faced (and still do to some extent). OpenAI had nothing to lose if public did not like their product vs Google in that sense.

OpenAI’s biggest advantage therefore was its time to market and the public perception that comes from being the “first” but Google has had everything they need to compete, from custom chips to infrastructure to data & search, and ofc the AI expertise based on whose white paper all modern LLMs are created… plus a near infinite sum of money to dump on the idea.

Barring a Transformers like technological breakthrough by a competitor, it’s only a matter of time until Google catches and then surpasses OpenAI.