Is all the mystery and intrigue surrounding OpenAI deliberate or just the natural consequence of a single firm holding keys to the greatest technology the world has ever seen? Crazy how casual and incidental so much of their PR seems.
You know that OpenAI are far from the only company training large neural networks? Eg Google and Facebook and Amazon, and countless others, are also hard at work on the matter.
If you want to point a finger at a single company pulling lots of strings, pick Nvidia perhaps? They also have competitors, of course, but Nvidia is far more central than OpenAI.
Compare this with Google, which on the release of their inferior chatgpt, proclaims the "GEMINI ERA". Which is the typical marketing approach of exaggeration.
Since OpenAI undersells, even a random tweet will be interpreted as the coming of AGI. Since Google oversells, even their impressive achivement (Gemini 1.5) gets no hype and is quickly forgotten.
It's not that impressive given Claude 3 Opus seems to beat it by almost every metric in spite of having way less funding and a smaller team behind it.
Give me a fucking break. Seriously, people.