If you believe them, model safety is why there isn't a general public release. LLMs (including chatGPT) tend to be bad at factual accuracy and can easily hallucinate. It's not obvious that you can work LLMs into a product where accuracy matters a lot. It might hurt brand image in ways that Google could not tolerate but OpenAI can tolerate.
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If you believe them, model safety is why there isn't a general public release. LLMs (including chatGPT) tend to be bad at factual accuracy and can easily hallucinate. It's not obvious that you can work LLMs into a product where accuracy matters a lot. It might hurt brand image in ways that Google could not tolerate but OpenAI can tolerate.