Why Google Never Shipped Its ChatGPT Predecessor — With Gaurav Nemade

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Gaurav Nemade was the founding product manager on LaMDA, Google's ChatGPT predecessor that never shipped. He explains why the product got stuck at Google in this first-ever episode of the new Big Tech War Stories podcast. This new show from Big Technology is available to premium subscribers and is debuting free on the Big Technology Podcast feed today. You can access the Big Technology launch special and get 50% off the monthly price here: https://bit.ly/bigtechnology or just visit bigtechnology.com. We return to our regularly scheduled Big Technology programming on Wednesday as Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana stops by for an interview. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:05.1	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:08.1	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:10.1	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:11.9	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.0	Google had an equal and perhaps better version of chat GPT working inside its company
0:27.7	before OpenAI released its own bot.
0:30.6	So why didn't Google ever ship it?
0:33.1	Today, in the first episode of the new Big Tech War Stories podcast, we're going to go deep into the history with Garv de Madeh, the first episode of the new big tech war stories podcast. We're going to go deep into the
0:39.3	history with Garv de Madhe, the first product manager to work on Lambda, Google's pioneering
0:45.1	chatbot built on top of large language models that never shipped. We're running this episode both
0:50.9	on the new big tech war stories podcast feed and on the big technology podcast
0:55.8	feed as a preview the new podcast will feature interviews with product leaders who are there on the
1:01.6	ground as major products got built and they'll tell you what it took to ship them or why they never did
1:07.5	and will also have key executives sharing what they learned from top
1:12.0	tech leaders. The new big tech war stories show is part of a new premium paid offering I'm
1:18.1	releasing with big technology that includes this podcast, the big tech war stories podcast, along
1:24.5	with a panel of experts weighing in on big tech news as it breaks, and a new
1:29.3	Amazon column by longtime Amazon veteran Christy Coulter. You can sign up at bigtechnology.com
1:35.8	and add the new big tech war stories show to your podcast player of choice. You can also
1:40.9	search for big tech war stories podcast and then upgrade on bigtechnology.com.
1:46.4	All right, let's get to it.
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