Is Google Pulling Ahead of OpenAI in the AI Race?

Google’s expanding AI partnerships, product integration, and recent technical progress are fuelling growing debate over whether it has quietly moved ahead of OpenAI in the global race to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence.

Matched Since 2022

Google and OpenAI have been closely matched since late 2022, when OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT reshaped public and commercial expectations of what generative AI could do, yet the balance of momentum now appears to be shifting as Google converts years of research into deployed systems at scale.