[throwawaaarrgh]

> There is "coding" and there is "God's spark genius of algorithms" kind of work.

I really don't buy that for a second. Most of OpenAI's value compared to any competitor comes from the money they spent hiring humans to trawl through training data.

[elzbardico]

Not to forget the mind-boggling amount of computing power and the megabucks spent on power bills. If anything, smaller groups and open source seem to get very good results with far less money.

[amelius]

The God's spark of genius are the transformers which came from Google and are now in the open.

[suziemanul]

Look where for example Lukasz Kaiser is now [OpenAI]. Google had a culture issue when it came to "delivering brilliance". It was a bit "you do it as a singleton contributor" or you don't. OpenAI put a number of such brilliant people working together on one goal, silently, for quite some time, and we all see the results.

[motoboi]

And their competition didn’t had the same resources?

[suziemanul]

This is a handful of people we are talking about. The top algorithimic world is incredibly small.

In short, either they didn't or where unable to create a favorable enough environment for this to flourish.