Professor Alan Smeaton:

One of the interesting things about this is that 20 or 25 years ago the big thing was web search engines. Those of us old enough to remember saw that there was a portfolio of a dozen of them available and then one emerged as being really strong. That one has persisted with us for the past two and half decades, which is great.

When it comes to large language models, there is not one. Every big tech company is doing this because there is such huge potential. I do not expect there to be one large language model to bind them all at the end of all of this. It is great to have the choice because competition among them, which currently is"my model is bigger than your model" will eventually turn into "my model is better". It will even turn into "my model is more ecologically friendly than your model" and "my model uses less electricity and energy consumption than your model."