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Pretty much all your major tech companies these days have some kind of AI-related product or service. Some companies, such as Google, have made efforts at developing their own AI models. Others, instead rely on already-existing models. So much so that Google doesn’t even think it’s a fair comparison.
In a recent interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai during The New York Times’ Dealbook summit, he basically took a shot at Microsoft’s AI efforts. He was quoted as saying, “I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models any day, any time. They’re using someone else’s models.”
This was seemingly in response to another interview earlier this year with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella had suggested that despite all of Google’s resources, they had somehow “failed” to become the leader in the AI field. Pichai’s latest comments seemed to be made in response to that.
Now, to be fair, there are many reasons why a company might choose to use someone else’s AI models rather than their own. It costs a lot of money and a lot of time to develop and train an AI model. Sometimes it would be more cost-effective and time-efficient to just use what’s already available out there.
Microsoft has made no secret that they are working with OpenAI in bringing AI to products and services like Bing and Windows. This doesn’t mean that Microsoft wouldn’t be interested in creating their own AI models, but what do you think of Google’s jab at Microsoft? Fair?
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