If Google announced a ChatGPT equivalent embedded in Google Docs, I think ChatGPT would lose a ton of users very quickly. The Microsoft partnership/investment is their saving grace.
I think it’s a bit early to declare either of them to be a long-term (commercial) success.
> The Microsoft partnership/investment is their saving grace.
Who's saving who, though?
> Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft's sprawling research efforts, told Nadella Microsoft's researchers were blown away by the GPT-4's ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence.
> Nadella demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft's 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades said, "OpenAI built this with 250 people. Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?"
I think it’s a bit early to declare either of them to be a long-term (commercial) success.
Edit: See Google Duet: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet...