That is a common narrative but Google had LaMDA as an LLM with over 100B parameters before the ChatGPT release. There was even a Xoogler that claimed it was alive.
From my POV Google could have released a good B2C LLM before OpenAI, but it would compete with their own Ads business.
From my POV Google could have released a good B2C LLM before OpenAI, but it would compete with their own Ads business.