[YeBanKo]

The point of OpenAI was that no single company would have a moat around LLM or foundation models in general. It was set as a non profit with this goal in mind and got money for it.

Whether Google pat itself on the back or not for releasing the paper no one could replicate, is not important, because an open research had never been their company’s goal. What happened is a for-profit company released a paper, that allowed a huge advantage to a company, whose mission was to ensure that no one has a huge advantage in the field. OpenAI was converted to for profit and established exclusive relationship with Microsoft.

Google fucked up and missed the train, but they can catch up. Much harder for smaller companies if as a result of this Fb, Google, etc AI research dept lock down their papers to tools to internal use only.