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OpenAI launched its chatbot, ChatGPT, in 2022, initiating a new era in artificial intelligence (AI). This left behind tech giants such as Google, which had been working on artificial intelligence technologies for years. What was Google’s reaction to OpenAI releasing ChatGPT ahead of its chatbot Gemini?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
CEO of Google <\/a>and its parent company, Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, recently shared his reaction to the release of ChatGPT at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual technology event, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBut you’re right, credit to OpenAI<\/a>, they put it out first,\u201d a report by Business Insider quoted Pichai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pichai’s remarks came when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sought Google’s reaction, which he called the “absolute leader in AI” at the time, when \u201cthis little company in San Francisco called OpenAI emerges with this product ChatGPT\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Google CEO mentioned that the company had already made enough progress on AI products, including an internal version of a chatbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ” Credit to OpenAI, they put it out first,” Sundar Pichai, Google CEO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pichai <\/a>further compared the time of ChatGPT’s launch to others he had observed in the consumer internet sector. For example, when Google was developing video search in 2006, YouTube<\/a> “came out of nowhere,” Facebook was getting popular with photos in its feed, and then Instagram surfaced, the report said. Notably, Google bought YouTube, and Facebook purchased Instagram later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “We knew in a different world, we would’ve probably launched our chatbot maybe a few months down the line,” Pichai said. \u201cWe hadn’t quite gotten it to a level where you could put it out and people would’ve been OK with Google putting out that product. It still had a lot of issues at that time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhat did Sundar Pichai say?<\/h2>\n
Comparison with YouTube and Instagram<\/h2>\n
Sundar Pichai flags reputational risks<\/h2>\n