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ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

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302 points mastermaq | 3 comments | 24 Jun 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.787s | source
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breadwinner ◴[24 Jun 25 20:23 UTC] No.44370630[source]▶
Microsoft has wasted their opportunity.

When ChatGPT first came out, Satya and Microsoft were seen as visionaries for their wisdom in investing in Open AI. Then competitors caught up while Microsoft stood still. Their integration with ChatGPT produced poor results [1] reminding people of Tay [2]. Bing failed to capitalize on AI, while Proclarity showed what an AI-powered search engine should really look like. Copilot failed to live up to its promise. Then Claude.ai, Gemini 2.0 caught up with or exceeded ChatGPT, and Microsoft still doesn't have their own model.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

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vbezhenar ◴[24 Jun 25 21:46 UTC] No.44371424[source]▶
I'll add, that Google search AI integration is quite good. I'm actually amazed how well it works, given the scale of Google Search. Nowadays I don't click search results in 50% of searches, because Google AI outputs response good enough for me.
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asciimov ◴[24 Jun 25 22:19 UTC] No.44371652[source]▶
Maybe we have a different Google AI down here in south Texas, but the Google search AI results I receive are laughably bad.

It has made up tags for cli functions, suggested nonexistent functions with usage instructions, it’s given me operations in the wrong order, and my personal favorite it gave me a code example in the wrong language (think replying Visual Basic for C).

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1. gundmc ◴[25 Jun 25 04:54 UTC] No.44373731[source]▶
The AI Overviews (on the main SRP) is pretty hit or miss. The new "AI Mode" (separate tab) is _very_ good.
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2. jiggawatts ◴[25 Jun 25 09:46 UTC] No.44375382[source]▶
It cracks me up that I can only find animated marketing bs pages about this that show nothing of interest, but I can't actually find how to use it despite minutes of looking.

Well done Google Marketing, well done.

Another product carefully kept away from the grubby little hands of potential users!

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3. Barbing ◴[25 Jun 25 15:41 UTC] No.44378562[source]▶
They even disabled it if you didn’t use the right combination of browser and willingness to share your data.

Seems a lot more like general availability on my end now, though, these past few days. One can try Google dot com, slash AIMode.

Not nearly as good as using Gemini 2.5 pro which they do offer for free but I forget where. AI studio? So many ways to access it.