How Google Regained Its Former Strength and Overtook OpenAI

After ChatGPT had dominated the early chatbot market, Google made a comeback with a powerful AI model, the biggest overhaul of its search engine in years. In the early hours of an August day, an AI project manager at Google uploaded the latest creation from the DeepMind lab to a platform that evaluates AI models. Google had fallen behind in the AI race while its rival OpenAI attracted hundreds of millions of users with its ChatGPT chatbot. Google researchers hoped that a new feature, a lightning-fast image generator, would give the search engine...