[PoignardAzur]

> "Ignoring resource and morality costs, is it at all technically possible?"

If it were that simple, SpaceX wouldn't have revolutionized spaceflight.

Sometimes private actors have talents or organizational structure that gives them an edge in innovation that public actors can't keep up with for a while.

All competitors to OpenAI we've seen are struggling to reach GPT-3.5 level, let alone GPT-4 level, with years of catch-up time. It's not ridiculous to imagine that state actors are struggling as well.