It’s apples and oranges imo. Google owns Wayze which is hitting the streets in SF this year with autonomous taxis. That’s huge if it goes well. There are of course other non-public models Google has developed like Imagen (diffusion model) and LaMDA (Google engineer convinced it was sentient). So I wouldn’t discount Google at all.

In terms of granting direct access to machine learning models, OpenAI has Google beat. But that’s not Google’s business model. And it remains to be seen if it’s a viable business model at all.