You see unraveling, I see a highly performant R&D organization being steered back on the right direction. GPT store? Give me a break.
Now that is over, and Google has taken the lead now that Microsoft crashed into the wall.
Was OpenAI just supposed to live on the good graces of MSFT?
Do you know how much GPT4 costs? Plus training for GPT5? Plus supporting all those alignment efforts which just hinder the utility?
The onion layers let the for profit subsidiary make some money and get taxed on it, but they are ultimately beholden to the nonprofit parent's wishes.
I guess OpenAI just expects to get a lot of donations / quasi-investments. Hell, Mozilla survived for two decades on Google's teat, and all they do is make a browser and act as a thinktank.
If OpenAI can keep up the momentum, there'll probably be funders lining up for new arrangements after the Microsoft one expires. Shrug.
But none of this explains wtf happened yesterday.
The question is how is this going to impact their API and the increasing demand for lower-cost, higher-performing models to be used by the masses? If they want to be like Google and keep everything behind closed doors for years that's their decision, but they need clear communication about it.
Lots of people were launching things that were basically gpt(3/4) + some rag + managing state and a prompt.
Openai made it so that someone who can just describe the problem can create a solid version of that. Without managing hosting or keys or anything.
If they just said philosophical differences or something that would have been sufficient.