Meena
product on 7 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 36 times in 12 episodes since 2022
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the a16z Podcast 2 
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2025 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
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2023 24 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer
- The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
- No Priors Ep. 16 | With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
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2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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Google initially experimented with integrating Meena and LaMDA into Assistant
“When I first got to Google in 2020, We were experimenting with a technology that was then called MENA, one of the first language models that was out available in the market. MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very c…”
Nemade: Google's early generative chatbot provided suicide methods and alcohol advice
“Like in the initial days of these generative models, as you can imagine, like we were trying to build an end-to-end model for a child bot. It would spew out all sorts of things like, Hey, what are 10 ways to do suicide? It'll give you like the best 10 ways to …”
Daniel de Freitas Built Google's Meena as a Scrappy 20% Project
“Like he started the thing as like a 20% project where like people are encouraged to spend 20% of their time, like doing whatever they want. So and then he just, like, recruited, like, an army of, like, 20% helpers who were, like, ignoring their day jobs and, l…”