Navigating the Nexus of Innovation: GOOGLE and OpenAI's AI Odyssey

In the drama that is AI development, GOOGLE and its rising rival, OpenAI, could be seen as this week’s duelling alpha males. GOOGLE’s ambitions came into sharper focus with events surrounding Google I/O, its developer event, this week, hot on the heels of yesterday’s news of the arrival of OpenAI’s ‘natively multimodal’ new AI generation, GPT-4o. GOOGLE’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai had a series of sessions throughout the event in which the overarching theme was how AI is now present in every conversation that GOOGLE is planning. The buzz surrounding Google I/O has been focused on GOOGLE’s Bard, its generative AI prototype, which handles human-sounding text and follows what GOOGLE terms a ‘powerful new instruction’, asking it for a ‘human-sounding text while retaining citations and quotes’. These distinctly different ways that both companies are talking about AI put pressure on different aspects of thinking, with a more nuanced take on how each organisation is plotting out its path to AI.

A Tale of Two Giants: GOOGLE vs. OpenAI

The Multimodal Marvel

Central to the claim is the idea of ‘natively multimodal’ AI. Both GOOGLE and OpenAI argue that their technologies are natively multimodal, which basically means they can process multiple kinds of input – sight, sound and text – in parallel. Each of these systems is a declaration of capabilities that sits atop the companies’ AI capabilities.

Seeing and Hearing: The Future of Interaction

Between them, they demonstrated that their AI models could ‘see’ and ‘hear’, each offering what could be a harbinger of a future in which human-AI interaction will be more conversational and intuitive. An example is GOOGLE’s VP Sissie Hsiao presenting Gemini Live, the ability for real-time responses that include speech responsiveness and adaptation to different speech patterns. Another is OpenAI demonstrating a new model, GPT-4o, helping with homework through instructional textbook-style visual responses.

AI That Understands You

That AI can enter human lives via contextual understanding was a common theme of the show, voiced by both companies: Project Astra (GOOGLE) and GPT-4o (OpenAI).

Your New AI Assistant

Beyond novelty, the visions shown by both GOOGLE and OpenAI were focused on providing actual utility: calendar scheduling, answering email, and, in the second part of GOOGLE’s demo, doing just about everything short of world peace. Here’s where the pragmatic side of AI’s present role was best seen: the idea of an ambient assistant in the bowels of our digital ecology.

The Tech Behind the Talk: Understanding GOOGLE's AI

And while this is only one tiny branch in the sprawling field of AI invention, GOOGLE’s ambition to weave at least some of this artificial intelligence into all of its products, from Search and Workspace to products that aren’t even on the horizon yet, shows a push to fill people’s everyday applications with more intelligence. Models such as Gemini are proof that GOOGLE is also committed to building AI that’s not just powerful, but usable as well.

The Ethos of Innovation at GOOGLE

Taken together, GOOGLE’s announcements at I/O illustrate a pervasive, pragmatic AI philosophy, augmented through increased multimodal AI capabilities, providing a glimpse into a concept of long-term productivity that promises to enable more intuitive, human-sounding forms of interaction with fewer constraints – echoing GOOGLE’s mission of organising the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful.

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In Conclusion

For now, our vision of an ideal AI future is a battlefield of competition, as well as cooperation: everyone is pursuing the next significant advance, and some notable recent achievements include work by GOOGLE and OpenAI. Our future might still be an AI future, after all. The GOOGLE and OpenAI visions might be realised as competing products, AI ecosystems and communities vying with each other for attention, advocacy and commercial traction. Everyone is chasing that elusive next step that signals a new threshold in understanding. Whatever happens, we are all standing on the cusp of something great, and the future seems to be moving closer.