Search engine giants like Google and Baidu seem to be doing rather poorly in their AI efforts.

They got up early, but ended up arriving late to the party, and made a complete mess of things.

These days, very few people go out of their way to open a search engine to look for information. Now even the vegetable seller at the street corner knows that if you have a problem, ask Doubao.

If things keep developing this way, the moat that traditional search engine giants spent decades building will probably be slowly worn away.