Microsoft and Google were surprisingly aggressive in AI’s early race, says Eric Mollock
emollick · x · 2026-08-04
Eric Mollock says it is striking how bold Microsoft and Google were early in AI. He points out that Microsoft shipped GPT-4 ahead of OpenAI, kept moving after the Sydney incident, and brought Copilot to market quickly as the first professional AI tool. He also says Google had the first deep research and pivoted fast with Bard.
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