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The simpler reason is that OpenAI has $10B+ in funding and the clock has started ticking to get real returns. And they aren't getting those returns by giving their tech away.

They are operating just like every other VC-backed startup in history.

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I mean the conspiracy argument would be that the $10B isn't a normal investment. It's a special government project investment facilitated by OpenAI board member and former clandestine CIA operative and cybersecurity executive Will Hurd through his role on the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel the investment arm of the CIA. It's funneled through Microsoft instead of through Google in part because of Google's No-Military-AI pledge in 2018 demanded by its employees, after which Microsoft took over its military contracts including project Maven. The new special government project, the Sydney project, is the most urgent and ambitious since the project to develop nuclear weapons in the mid twentieth century.

Of course I don't necessarily believe any of that but it can be fun to think about.

It is fun to think about. However if it were remotely true, the CIA has some explaining to do...

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/16405144035935109...

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