So nutty. I didn't think they were going to drop such a huge bomb on the industry. We're firmly in "singularity" territory where the pace of acceleration is so fast, huge strides are being made every day / week, it feels like.
We're probably able to conclude what we're seeing in public is about about 6 months behind what's happening in development. We know that in the past OpenAI relied on a lot more lag.
Point is innovation is certainly accelerating but also OpenAI's time-to-market is shrinking (/shrunk - it probably can't get much shorter).
Say what you want about OpenAI, and trust me I think there's a lot of material there, but you can't say they don't ship. Nobody else is even close.