Google reduces AI research output to compete with OpenAI.

Google has shifted its AI operations to launch products quickly, with a focus on protecting its core search business and future. The company has lowered the bar for launching experimental AI tools to smaller groups, developed a new set of evaluation metrics and priorities in areas like fairness, and merged Google Brain with DeepMind to accelerate progress in AI. The policy change comes after OpenAI's ChatGPT kept up with Google by reading the team's scientific papers, prompting Google to share papers only after lab work has been turned into products. However, some researchers worry that the need for additional approval before publishing on relevant AI research could mean researchers will be "scooped" on their discoveries in the lightning-fast world of generative AI.