Comment by tester756
>first mover isnt always an advantage
but in this case it is, ChatGPT name is really, really strong, it's like "just google it" instead of "just search the web"
>first mover isnt always an advantage
but in this case it is, ChatGPT name is really, really strong, it's like "just google it" instead of "just search the web"
I'm not sure because google was by far the best search engine for a long time in the early 2000s and there are a lot of models close to what openai has right now.
Name recognition only gets you so far. "Just Google it" happened because Google was better than Hotbot/Altavista/Yahoo! etc by orders of magnitude. Nobody even bothered to launch a competing search engine in the 2000s because of this (until Microsoft w/ Bing in 2009). There is no such parallel with ChatGPT; Google, Bing, even DuckDuckGo has AI search.
First mover advantage matters only if it has long-lasting network effects. American schools are run on Chromebooks and Google Docs/Slides, but these have no penetration in enterprise, as college students have been discovering when they enter their first jobs.
Maybe but it's far from profitable. People largely don't want to pay for it either.