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There are lots of people doing excellent research on the market right now, especially with the epic brain drain being experienced by Google. And remember that OpenAI neither invented transformers nor switch transformers (which is what GPT4 is rumoured to be).
That team had set state of the art for years now.
Every major firm that has a spot for that company's chief researcher and can afford him would bid.
This is the team that actually shipped and continues to ship. You take him every time if you possibly have room and he would be happy.
Anyone whose hired would agree in 99 percent of cases, some limited scenarios such as bad predicted team fit ect set aside.
Including their head researcher.
I'm not continuing this. Your position is about as tenable as the boards. Equally rigid as well.