Google have really been caught with their pants down here.
Remember that OpenAI was created specifically to stave off the threat of AI monopolization by Google (or anyone else - but at the time Google).
DeepMind have done some interesting stuff with Go, Protein folding etc, but nothing really commercial, nor addressing their reason d'etre of AGI.
Google's just-released ChatGPT competitor, Bard, seems surprisingly weak, and meantime OpenAI are just widening their lead. Seems like a case of the small nimble startup running circles around the big corporate behemoth.
OpenAI went all in on generative models, i.e. stable diffusion and large language models. DeepMind focused on reinforcement learning, tree search, plus alphafold approaches to biology. FAIR has translation, pytorch, and some LLM stuff in biology.
What OpenAI is missing though is any AI research in biology, but I bet they are working on it.
I'm not sure if this makes sense but OpenAI seems to be operating at a higher level of abstraction (AGI) where they are integrating modalities (text and image modality for now, probably speech next) vs the other places have taken a more focused applied approach.
Remember that OpenAI was created specifically to stave off the threat of AI monopolization by Google (or anyone else - but at the time Google).
DeepMind have done some interesting stuff with Go, Protein folding etc, but nothing really commercial, nor addressing their reason d'etre of AGI.
Google's just-released ChatGPT competitor, Bard, seems surprisingly weak, and meantime OpenAI are just widening their lead. Seems like a case of the small nimble startup running circles around the big corporate behemoth.