OpenAI's recently departed VP of research calls Google's comeback 'OpenAI's fumble'

"Personally, what I think you should consider Google's comeback, I think it's OpenAI's fumble,"

"Very clearly, Google started treating seriously at that moment, training large language models and, like, through OpenAI fumbling its lead, they are very, very close now in capability and in terms of models trained,"

"If you are a company that is ahead and has all the advantages that OpenAI has you should always stay ahead,"

OpenAI established an early lead in generative AI with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, which demonstrated clear revenue potential and spurred broad industry investment. Subsequent missteps at OpenAI reduced that advantage, enabling Google to accelerate focused training of large language models and narrow the performance and models-trained gap. Google’s Gemini 3 drew widespread praise and prompted a competitive response, including OpenAI declaring a "Code Red" amid rising rivalry. A former OpenAI vice president of research left to pursue research types difficult to perform within OpenAI. The intense pace and operational toll of the AI race affected competitive trajectories across the industry.

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