How Google Missed Out on ChatGPT Is Truly Mind-Boggling: Developed a Year in Advance, Yet Didn't Dare to Launch

According to Dynamic Beating monitoring, OpenAI's Product Lead Tibo Sottiaux said he worked on an internal chatbot called LMChat at Google DeepMind. This project existed about a year before the release of ChatGPT and had a product very similar to the later ChatGPT.

Google ultimately did not release it. Sottiaux said the company was concerned it would cannibalize existing business, and DeepMind couldn't launch a product that might threaten Google.

He had previously discussed this story in an interview with WIRED.