I work in a highly related area. But honestly:

> has been criticized even in the ImageNet days as a shower than a doer

When has the world ever rewarded doers? It has almost always rewarded the showers. If it rewarded the doers:

* CTOs would be regarded more highly than CEOs

* A few key Apple engineers would be more well known than Steve Jobs

* Nikola Tesla would be more famous than Edison

> this was just a financial maneuver

I mean, if you could have a couple billion dollars now OR possibly $0 when OpenAI/Anthropic's models can eventually do what yours can do, I wouldn't blame you for taking the former.