Why AI Labs Copy the Idea, Not the Startup

Long ago, whenever Microsoft first launched Windows and some of the early operating systems were coming out, one of the things that happened was people built applications on top of the operating system. Microsoft saw those applications were doing really well and guess what they did. They launched their own.Now, most of the ones they launched were garbage. Microsoft, turns out, for a long time, wasn't particularly good at launching applications, but they got better at it and over time ate a host of different ...