When OpenAI slipped out ChatGPT in November 2022, the company behind it had little idea how successful it would be. Neither did the rest of the tech world, including Google.
Both OpenAI and Google would quickly find out. Within two months, ChatGPT had 100 million users. Headlines talked about the changing paradigm of the AI revolution. Google began to panic. So too did its shareholders, seeing the company’s stock value drop nearly 40 per cent throughout 2022.
