Ex-Googler Reveals ChatGPT-like Prototype Was Shelved a Year Early
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-08-02
A former Google employee revealed that their team built a ChatGPT-like product (codenamed LMChat) a full year before OpenAI's launch.
However, Google was too nervous to release it, and DeepMind was blocked from shipping products that could disrupt Google's existing business. swyx shared this as a prime counter-example for VCs asking founders, "What if the incumbent builds this?"
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