Big OpenAI releases usually seem to come with some kind of baked-in controversy, usually around keeping something secret. For example they originally refused to release the weights to GPT-2 because it was "too dangerous" (lol), generating a lot of buzz, right before they went for-profit. For GPT-3 they never released the weights. I wonder if it's an intentional pattern to generate press and plant the idea that their models are scarily powerful.