Assuming this is as good as ChatGPT it's interesting that they have had this up their sleeves but decided not to release it – I wonder why? I've heard a lot of

Assuming this is as good as ChatGPT it's interesting that they have had this up their sleeves but decided not to release it – I wonder why? I've heard a lot of people comment about how only a private tech startup like OpenAI could realistically have released something like ChatGPT today, because ChatGPT requires a huge amount of capital to build (and run) and provides some fairly controversial answers which public investors might not like. I suppose it's interesting that Google seems to disagree with this. Although the "lightweight model version" line makes me suspect this is a slightly different system and perhaps more easily sandboxed than ChatGPT.