It’s increasingly clear to me that the lunch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in 2023 was Google’s “Kodak moment”. Google, whose mission is to “organise the world’s information and make it universally useful”, somehow managed to fumble the opportunity to launch the most significant product in that space for perhaps all of history, despite their own researchers writing the seminal paper which underlies ChatGPT and having unmatched access to compute and training data.