Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Lambda was the model, then there also was a chat interface to Lambda that was internal for Google use only. Noam is still advocating to leadership. We got to release this thing. He leaves in 2021 and found a chat bot company, Character AI, that still exists to this day and they raise a lot of money, as you would expect. Then Google ultimately in 2024 after ChatGPT launches pays $2.7 billion (I think) to do a licensing deal with Character AI, the net of which Noam comes back to Google. I think Larry and Sergey were like, hmm, if we’re going to compete seriously, we need Noam back and blank check to go get him. So throughout 2021–2022, Google’s working on the Lambda model and then the chat interface to it. In May of 2022, they do release something that is available to the public called AI Test Kitchen, which is an AI product test area where people can play around with Google’s internal AI products, including the Lambda chat interface.…

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