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> I think the non-profit has around 25% ownership of something that is around a trillion dollars of on-paper money.

But the purpose of a non profit is not to maximise profit in a for profit investment.

How well is non profit doing at furthering its goals? It formerly had the purpose of “safely” ensuring artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It looks like it gave up on that so its staff could be incredibly rich.

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Do you not think money provides some ability to achieve goals? Fund raising is an integral part of most non-profits.

But you ignored the part about influence, would an OpenAI that did not scale up and had no world beating models have much of a say in how AI gets developed

This is not to say that I think they are doing everything right, but I see people bitter that they didn't take the path towards forgotten irrelivance.

What would you reccommend that they should have done that would still lead to them being relevant to the world development of AI?

Frankly the non-profit has failed. OpenAI is one of the least open of the AI companies (Anthropic is a bit worse). If it wasn't for the labs in China the dream of an actual open ai system would be dead.

I feel like people don’t give OpenAI enough credit for the early papers they did publish. Those are what showed the way that everyone else has built on.

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