Former DeepMind researcher Thibo broke the news: Google had made a similar product a year before ChatGPT was released, but it was eventually hidden.

IT House reported on August 2 that Thibault Sottiaux, head of the OpenAI Codex project, had worked at Google’s DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for six years and had studied AI infrastructure, machine learning engineering and other projects. Today, Thibo broke the news on the But in the end, the product was not released. The reason is that the company was worried that the product might compete with Google search, so it has been hidden. And Google also has regulations that DeepMind cannot release products that "may subvert Google's existing business." IT House noted that Google employee Jeff Dean once said that Google had developed a chatbot before the release of ChatGPT, but the company internally believed that the product was not better than Google search, so it was not launched.