Segment Anything 2 is fantastic- but less mysterious because its open source. NotebookLM is amazing, but nobody is rushing to create benchmarks for it. AlphaFold is never going to be used by consumers like ChatGPT.
OpenAI is certainly competitive, but they also work overtime to hype everything they produce as "one step closer to the singularity" in a way that the others don't.
They aren't letting anyone external have access to their top end products either. Google invented transformers and kept the field stagnant for 5 years because they were afraid it would eat into their search monopoly.
The combination of the latest models in products that people want to use is what will drive growth.
I can't use the OpenAI app anyway as they demand a logged-in Google account. I do have play services but not logged in.
It boggles my mind why they want to insist that you make an account with their total competition in order to use their service but they do.