Amjad Masad says Google,
$GOOGL, killed a coding model deal with Replit because it was scared of disrupting Search. Replit is now worth 9 billion dollars.
"I was going around Silicon Valley. There wasn't anyone paying attention to AI coding. And I was talking to OpenAI, I was talking to Anthropic, I was talking to Google."
"We got excited about potentially doing a deal together and we got close, but then Google actually killed it. And the reason is because Google Search is such a profitable product that they were worried about the reputation, and they were worried about Google Search being disrupted."
[ They denied it, but it's true. ]
"I tried with all these different companies. We have to train our own model. Which is a radical thing to do in like 2023."