Robin Li: some people say that Baidu missed out on ChatGPT, but Google didn't make it even though it spent an extra $40 million.
On May 4, Robin Li said at an internal event on Baidu today that some people said Baidu missed the opportunity to make a ChatGPT, but Google spent an extra $40 million and failed to make a ChatGPT.
Previously, ChatGPT chief scientist Ilya Satsky (Ilya Sutskever) had set up a small company, Baidu, Microsoft, Google had vied for this talent, and Google finally got it for $44 million.
Li Yanhong also mentioned the previous statement about the two-month gap with ChatGPT, "I still had a saying at that time, that is, how long will it take to catch up with the gap between these two months? it depends on our efforts, we may be able to catch up, but we may not be able to catch up."