This sounds a bit like those stories about Kodak having a digital camera before anybody else did, and they just fearfully watched the thing from a distance doing nuthing until someone else brought it to market and ended the party for them.
May be an entirely different thing this time of course. But still...
Well they had a giant conversational size bigger than GPT3. It was not as safe or good at following instructions as ChatGPT. But it was as flowing as it is. So maybe it's an exaggeration (this word has two gs in english!?) to say that it's as good, but it was also extremely strong and impressive
May be an entirely different thing this time of course. But still...