downvote all you want. google has all the money to keep up and just wait for the others to die. apple is a different story, btw, can probably buy openai or anthropic, but for now they're just waiting like google, and since they need to provide users AI after the failure with Apple Intelligence, they prefer to pay for Google and wait for the others to fight against each other.

openai and anthropic know already what will happen if they go public :)

What will happen if they go public?

That’s not a well informed argument. Even if Apple could finance the $1T+ it would cost to buy Anthropic - they’re not making that money back by making the iPhone a little better. The only way to monetize is by selling, as Anthropic does, enterprise services to businesses. And that’s not Apple’s “DNA,” to use their language.

Google is vulnerable in search and that already shows as we see a decline as many parallel paths emerge. At the beginning it was a simple lookup for valid information and it became dominant - then pages of pay ranked preference spots filled pages that obscured what you wanted = it became evil.