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True and their first mover advantage still works pretty well. Despite "ChatGPT" being a really uncool name in terms of marketing. People remember it because they were the first to wow them.



How is ChatGPT bad in terms of marketing? It's recognizable and rolls off the tongue in many many many languages.

Gemini is what sucks from a marketing perspective. Generic-ass name.


Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a horrible term to have an acronym for.


Do you think the mass market thinks GPT is an acronym? It's just a name. Currently synonymous with AI.

Ask anyone outside the tech bubble about "Gemini" though. You'll get astrology.


True I guess they treat it just like SMS.

I still think they'd have taken off more if they'd given it a catchy name from the start and made the interface a bit more consumer friendly.


It feels more authentically engineer-coded.




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