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In 2021–22 Amjad Masad says he pitched coding-specific model partnerships to…

2026-08-07 · 01:50 UTC ·@amasad ·1 min read

Brief

Amjad Masad recounts that in 2021–22 he sought partnerships with Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to build coding-focused models, but companies downplayed coding in favor of NLP; he alleges Google terminated a deal to avoid disrupting Search. Replit instead trained Replit-code-3b in 2023, and Masad says Replit is now worth $9 billion as coding models took off.

Why it matters

In 2021–22 Amjad Masad says he pitched coding-specific model partnerships to Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic, but they prioritized NLP use cases over coding.

Key details

  • Masad claims Google killed a potential coding-model deal because it feared disrupting its profitable Search product (Google denied it, per Masad).
  • Replit trained its own model, Replit-code-3b, in 2023 and (per the post) Replit is now worth $9 billion, after which other companies widely adopted coding models.
Source evidence

It’s true, in 21/22 I went around the valley asking everyone to train coding specific models with us: Google, Meta, everyone — no one thought it was as important as NLP use cases — eventually we trained our own: Replit-code-3b and then everyone got code pilled.

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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."

Video

— https://nitter.net/CEOinterview/status/2085471234020810759#m