A hundred days. That was how long Google was giving Sissie Hsiao. A hundred days to build a ChatGPT rival.
By the time Hsiao took on the project in December 2022, she had spent more than 16 years at the company. She led thousands of employees. Hsiao had seen her share of corporate crises—but nothing like the code red that had been brewing in the days since OpenAI, a small research lab, released its public experiment in artificial intelligence. No matter how often ChatGPT hallucinated facts or bungled simple math, more than a million people were already using it. Worse, some saw it as a replacement for Google search, the
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