It's possible that Google is too late in stopping OpenAI.

Every non-tech person around me goes to ChatGPT app by default. The branding is too strong. OpenAI also seems to productize better. They're moving at a faster clip. Google has historically been very weak at productizing tech.

For all their resources and the ability to quickly ship software via LLM assistants, they still don't have a Mac app for Gemini.

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output