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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“If we’re going to do one, we should probably launch it before they launch theirs. I think that had something to do with the timing.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…Is this the Dario… Interface? Yeah, the Dario and Anthropic version. Anthropic was working on what would become Claude. Rumors were out there and people at OpenAI got wind of like, oh hey, Anthropic and Dario are working on a chat interface. We should probably do one too. If we’re going to do one, we should probably launch it before they launch theirs. I think that had something to do with the timing. But again, I don’t think anybody, including OpenAI, realized what was going to happen, which is, Ben you alluded to it but to give the actual numbers. On November 30th, 2022… Basically Thanksgiving.…
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