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The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.
OpenAI Unveils More Advanced Reasoning Model in Race With Google
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence model that it said is capable of more advanced human-like reasoning than its current offerings, ratcheting up the competition with rivals such as Alphabet Inc.
Google reveals AI ‘reasoning’ model that ‘explicitly shows its thoughts’
Google has introduced a new AI “reasoning” model capable of answering complex questions while also providing a rundown of its “thoughts,” as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The model, called Gemini 2.
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
It's been a really busy month for Google as it apparently endeavors to outshine OpenAI with a blitz of AI releases. On Thursday, Google dropped its latest party trick: Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which is a new AI model that uses runtime "reasoning" techniques similar to OpenAI's o1 to achieve "deeper thinking" on problems fed into it.
Google unveils new reasoning model Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking to rival OpenAI o1
Unlike competitor reasoning model o1 from OpenAI, Gemini 2.0 enables users to access its step-by-step reasoning through a dropdown menu.

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OpenAI launched its best new AI model in September. It already has challengers, one from China and another from Google.
The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.
OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved ...
OpenAI announces new o3 models
OpenAI saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day "shipmas" event. On Friday, the company unveiled o3, the ...
Google's AI video generator blows OpenAI's Sora out of the water. YouTube may be a big reason.
Early testers are playing with Google's new Veo 2 and finding it bests OpenAI's Sora when it comes to accuracy.
OpenAI Steps Up Its Google Fight. How Alphabet Is Striking Back.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI on Monday said that it was opening access to ChatGPT Search to all users, having previously limited ...
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Google Unveils Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental: It's 'Reasoning' AI That Rivals OpenAI's o1
OpenAI's o1 Model vs. Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. However, it was OpenAI who, yet again, went ahead to ...
Google And OpenAI CEOs Offer Different 2025 Generative AI Forecasts
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sees a slowdown while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions acceleration to generative artificial ...
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Google Veo 2 vs OpenAI Sora
Here are some screenshots from Google Veo 2 generated video.
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI?
The new o3 models did so well on a prominent benchmark that some immediately questioned whether OpenAI, had, in fact, ...