>For those claiming OpenAI is for profit: Why would OpenAI do this if they were fixated on making money?
Silicon Valley companies have for the past 25 years focused on getting as many users as possible to increase valuation in the hope of getting a $100 billion exit. They don't care about current or near future profitability.
However I agree that OpenAI is getting far too much hate. Their goal of bringing openness to AI made sense in 2015 when one American company (Google) was dominating the field.
However now there are plenty of other companies, countries and open source organizations doing advanced AI research.
> For those claiming OpenAI is for profit: Why would OpenAI do this if they were fixated on making money?
To get lock-in from devs before competitors can enter the market and starves any would-be smaller competitors before they can raise money/gain traction.
This is what 'extinguish' looks like from the new EEE strategy that I have said before, years ago [0] from Microsoft which competitors with paid offerings being unable to compete with free since OpenAI's pricing model is now close to free and their competitors cannot increase their prices.
Since Microsoft can foot the bill for the Azure infrastructure, there is going to be little area for anyone to seriously compete against OpenAI on price, API and features, unless it is completely free and open source, like Stability AI.
please... the past ten years is a story of companies loosing money for getting a monopoly and you are still asking us why would they do that?
let's not forget the shift of narrative that "open" AI made from their name, their marketing and use of opensource and then their move to a commercial subset of microsoft. let's also not forget that they totally avoided discussing copyrights and the crawlings of datasources to extract knowledge from someone else property. the only close thing i can see today which avoided so much scrutiny while being highly sensitive are ICOs in crypto and Theranos in biotech.
They promised to create a lab where the benefits of AI would accrue to the people, not just existing tech giants.
They did that. They created a API where individuals and small businesses alike can use cutting edge AI technology via API. You have to pay, that's the only catch.
I don't see a DeepMind API.
I don't see an Anthropic API.
I don't see a Google Bard API.
I don't see a FB Galactica API.
For those claiming OpenAI is for profit: Why would OpenAI do this if they were fixated on making money?
Also, while I wish OpenAI released the code for ChatGPT, I applaud OpenAI for actually making their AI model available, to everyone, right now.
* Google hyped their Bard chatbot...but where is it?
* Facebook took down Galatica.
* Even Bing Chat has a waitlist