LaMBDA was also briefly available for public testing, but then rapidly withdrawn due to unhinged responses. One advantage that OpenAI had over Google was havin

LaMBDA was also briefly available for public testing, but then rapidly withdrawn due to unhinged responses. One advantage that OpenAI had over Google was having developed RLHF as a way to "align" the model's output to be more acceptable. Part of Google's dropping the ball at that time period (but catching up now with Gemini) may also have been just not knowing what to do with it. It certainly wasn't apparent pre-ChatGPT that there'd be any huge public demand for something like this, or that people would find so many uses for it in API form, and especially so with LaMBDA's behavioral issues.