When GPT was trending, everyone said it would revolutionize search engines like Google. But guess what? Google isn’t Baidu—it actually made a comeback. Here’s one perspective to explain it: GPT didn’t defeat Google; it helped unlock its potential. Google already had all the tech but didn’t dare to revolutionize search because of its ad business. OpenAI helped Google break free from its mental barriers, and now all that accumulated tech is in full swing: Gemini, AI Overviews, multimodal models, TPU v5. Even the foundation of ChatGPT, Transformer, was invented by Google. As for China, Baidu might really get replaced by Doubao. Time to celebrate...