This whole thing is just people talking past each other.

ChatGPT is a little "old" for AI. The problem is companies like Google and Meta were too pussy to keep theirs in the wild. Due to cost and moderation issues.

ChatGPT took a blank check from MSFT to launch it, moderate it, and gain all of that sweet sweet brand recognition.

Teams on Meta and Google are pissed that they have had to keep theirs behind the scenes running algorithms (you know, contributing to revenue), so they had to go and say something salty. If they want to prove that ChatGPT is not "innovative" then they need to come out and give us all free access to their tools like Open AI did.

While what they are saying is technically correct, the term "innovative" here is misleading. Because to really innovate you need someone to actually feel the positive results from your invention. So this guy is wrong about whatever innovative AI he might have access to. It's not more innovative, it's more advanced.

Just one man's two cents.