[compsciphd]

I'm wondering how the employees can move to a company doing essentially the exact same thing without any violation of privileged information from their old jobs.

The only thing I can assume is that there's nothing particularly proprietary about anything OpenAI has done, its just an issue of scale. But if that's the case, it would make them not that valuable, as anyone willing to invest enough to reach that same scale using the same non proprietary techniques would be just as good.

or am I missing something?

[pitched]

You can get a local chatbot running in seconds with this tool: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

None of the open models available to these local tools benchmark as well as the closed OpenAI model but the benchmarks are weird. In my own poking around, some models are definitely less coherent or more detailed for some specific prompts but it’s mostly the same.