OpenAI’s chief executive says the company is entering a period of tougher external sentiment as dominant rival Google sees a breakthrough in core artificial intelligence capabilities.
In an internal memo, Sam Altman says Google’s recent progress in AI development could pressure OpenAI in the near term, reports The Information.
Altman tells employees that “by all accounts, Google has been doing excellent work recently,” after it solved pre-training issues that have been frustrating OpenAI developers. Pre-training AI involves the exposure of large language models (LLMs) to data from the internet and other sources to learn and make connections.
Google appears to have made significant pre-training progress when OpenAI struggled to score gains, forcing the ChatGPT creator to focus instead on reasoning, which requires more compute to produce better responses.
Says Altman,
“We know we have some work to do, but we are catching up fast… Expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit.”
Altman tells OpenAI staff that he sees the firm making solid gains in the next few months on the back of “very ambitious bets,” including the rollout of a new LLM dubbed “Shallotpeat.” A person familiar with the matter says OpenAI looks to resolve bugs in the pretraining of Shallotpeat.
Altman remains optimistic even after falling behind Google, noting that “ChatGPT is AI to most people and I expect that to continue.”
Data from the market intelligence firm Similarweb shows that ChatGPT is losing ground in generative AI traffic share. In the last 12 months, ChatGPT’s numbers dropped from 86.6% to 72.3%, while Google’s Gemini surged from 5.6% to 13.7%.
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