This is basically what people were saying about Microsoft versus Google and other upstarts in the early 2000s.

Slow and steady wins the race. How could they lose to something on the web, when Microsoft owns the web browser itself? Everything runs on Windows and IE. They can just relax and wait for competitors to exhaust themselves, then quickly build their own version. Isn’t that how Netscape lost. Etc.

Now Google is the new Microsoft, just like Microsoft became the new IBM.

> This is basically what people were saying about Microsoft versus Google and other upstarts in the early 2000s.

They would have been right if Google marquee product was an Office Suite

Google was the AI company before AI companies were a thing. The comparison with Microsoft and IBM are misplaced because they failed to capture new territory; ML/AI is Google's stomping grounds. The criticism that Google is bad at consumer chatbots is true, but that's not where the real future value lays.

I've never heard or read anyone saying this in the early 2000s. They had publicly stated their contempt of the web earlier, made fools of themselves when they realized their mistake and went all-in on it, and spent the whole decade lagging behind. The closest they had to an online success was Wizzes.

But Microsoft seems to be doing fine too ?

Yes Google is the new Microsoft, even Microsoft is still the old Microsoft but OpenAI is not the new Google.