David Friedberg
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And it's going to take over more of how we spend our time in our lives, that it's not just about search anymore.
And it's going to take over more of how we spend our time in our lives, that it's not just about search anymore.
It's a whole new paradigm.
It's a whole new paradigm.
The pie will be 20 times bigger.
The pie will be 20 times bigger.
Yeah, and by being the market incumbent, it actually ended up creating a fantastic foil for Google.
Yeah, and by being the market incumbent, it actually ended up creating a fantastic foil for Google.
because they started getting all of the arrows and slings from the media about health advice and suicides and hallucinations and sending wrong information and all the risks and damage that that causes.
because they started getting all of the arrows and slings from the media about health advice and suicides and hallucinations and sending wrong information and all the risks and damage that that causes.
Meanwhile, everyone's laughing and joking about Google and ignoring them.
Meanwhile, everyone's laughing and joking about Google and ignoring them.
So in a way- No greater blessing has ever happened to Alphabet than OpenAI's rise.
So in a way- No greater blessing has ever happened to Alphabet than OpenAI's rise.
And I think that that rise, not only did it create the foil for Google in the monopoly sense, but it also took the attention away from Google, focused it on OpenAI, and that attention fundamentally damaged OpenAI's strategic product capabilities.
And I think that that rise, not only did it create the foil for Google in the monopoly sense, but it also took the attention away from Google, focused it on OpenAI, and that attention fundamentally damaged OpenAI's strategic product capabilities.
because they had to start to be so much more careful about what they said, how they said it, and it fundamentally damaged the product.
because they had to start to be so much more careful about what they said, how they said it, and it fundamentally damaged the product.
And the opposite was happening at Google at the same time, which is Larry, Sergey and Sundar being given permission by the board to take risk to go hard to figure this out.
And the opposite was happening at Google at the same time, which is Larry, Sergey and Sundar being given permission by the board to take risk to go hard to figure this out.