Depends on which impact and horizon you’re talking about. Advancing fundamental research — I’ll give that to Google and Microsoft Research

Advancing products that use AI and getting a consumer/public conversation started? That’s clearly (to me) in OpenAIs court

They’re both impactful, interlinked, and I’m not sure there’s some real stack ranking methodology.

Because of Google’s walled research strategy, they now appear to be an antiquated company.

Gemini does nothing. Even if it were comparable to GPT-4, they’re late to the party.

OpenAI is blazing the path now.

To take an example from the past month, billions of users are now benefiting from more accurate weather forecasts from their new model. Is there another company making more money from AI-powered products than Google right now?

Or, well, like many companies; all the peons doing the actual work, creation etc and the executives and investors profiting at the top. All it takes is to be lucky to be born into generational wealth apparently.