I don't talk to said friend about their work, so I genuinely have no insight here, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet what they have internally is considerably disparate from what is currently available in their consumer product.

Well, if your dad isn't one of the founder of Nintendo your point is moot. Given I was on the founding team of digitalocean as head of strategy till the IPO, and one of the founders of anthropic is a former tech journalist who covered my startups, maybe my friend is a founder of Anthropic?! Sorry your dad didn't work anywhere cool tho. :(