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Cheng Lou @_chenglou · Jul 31 I sometime think about that Jeff Dean interview where he said they had an internal bot before ChatGPT but didn't think it was better than just googling [24 replies, 48 reposts, 2.1K likes, 292K views] Machine Learning Street Talk reposted Tibo @thsottiaux I was part of that team. Basically ChatGPT one year before it came out. Called LMChat and then another codename. Google was too nervous to release it and DeepMind was blocked from shipping products that could disrupt Google. I think about this a lot. 9:53 AM · Aug 1, 2026 · 1.4M Views [226 replies, 653 reposts, 10K likes, 1.5K bookmarks] Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein · Aug 1 Sure, but why are they STILL seemingly unable to ship anything competitive, let alone good? Whole courses in business school should be dedicated to understanding this corporate sickness so that other companies can avoid it.
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X thread: Cheng Lou recalls Jeff Dean saying Google had an internal chatbot before ChatGPT but didn't think it beat googling; Tibo (@thsottiaux), reposted by Machine Learning Street Talk, says he was on that team — the bot ('LMChat' and another codename) was basically ChatGPT a year early, but Google was too nervous to release it and DeepMind was blocked from shipping products that could disrupt Google's core business. Jeffrey Emanuel replies asking why Google still seems unable to ship competitive products, suggesting it's a case study in corporate dysfunction.
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