These are ChatGPT’s strongest competitors right now


OpenAI is far from the only game in town. Some of the earliest work on large-language models came from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, for example. — Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash

OpenAI has stunned the world of techies and investors with its viral artificial intelligence products and its jaw-dropping US$10bil (RM42.5bil) in backing from Microsoft Corp. Now, a growing number of large and small companies are racing to try to overtake the startup in the suddenly hot world of AI services.

"There’s obviously a whole crew of startups that are trying to chase after them – or leapfrog them,” said Guido Appenzeller, a former Intel Corp. AI executive and an Andreessen Horowitz adviser.

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