Then say: The only competitive advantage that OpenAI has here is a headstart of 6-12 months
It's almost as if they want to keep this advantage, huh? Blows my mind how business illiterate some HN commenters are.
Open AI is not the first for-profit philanthropy. It's just another evangelical church with a televangelist at the helm. TED talks are sermons.
TBF: at least Open AI doesn't pretend to be a charity anymore... I feel sorry for the working sops who held MSFT stock in 401Ks and funded a massive tax write-off for the capital class. Dumbasses, amirite?
A headstart is not a competitive moat like network effects are. Go and try to raise money for your startup from a VC and tell them "well, everyone is doing the same as us, but we started 6 months earlier!!" - nobody cares.
The problem people are having is that OpenAI marketed themselves as supposedly democratizing AI, but it does the opposite.