Execs were too conservative and didn't realize the potential. They had a chatbot years ago but didn't release it. See for example this article: https://www.busi

Execs were too conservative and didn't realize the potential. They had a chatbot years ago but didn't release it. See for example this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-years-ago-execs-shut-down-report-2023-3?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-ye... (Noam Shazeer is one of the authors of the Transformer paper.)