Google is giving away some of the AI that powers chatbots

When Meta shared the raw computer code needed to build a chatbot last year, rival companies said Meta was releasing poorly understood and perhaps even dangerous technology into the world.

Now, in an indication that critics of sharing AI technology are losing ground to their industry peers, Google is making a similar move. Google released the computer code that powers its online chatbot Wednesday, after keeping this kind of technology concealed for many months.