A pretty good UX improvement for ChatGPT. I think they will fork VScode and make an AI editor later. Although It's confusing for me the OAI seems spend more time on end user product instead of working on AGI.
(The responses are generally far better than other products.)
These are revenue generators.
Both have a place.
That’s probably what Ilya is doing.
(FWIW I don’t think we’re close to AGI).
As a great founder once said: "Work towards your goal, but you must ship intermediate products."
George Hotz
If that's the case you need to optimize for hiring more ML engineers so you need revenue to bring in to pay them.
The former are building tools like these, while the latter are conducting research and building new models.
Since their skillsets don't overlap that much I don't think if they skipped building products like these, the research would go faster.