It would be hilarious if this scenario played out.
OpenAI starts as a nonprofit, aiming to benefit all humanity. Eventually, they discover a path to AGI and engage in intense internal debates: Should they abandon their original mission and chase profit, knowing it could bring generational wealth? They ultimately decide, "To hell with humanity—let’s go for the money."
As they pivot to prioritizing profit, DeepSeek emerges. Staying true to OpenAI’s original vision, DeepSeek open-sources everything, benefiting humanity and earning global admiration. Unintentionally, this move tanks OpenAI’s valuation. In the end, OpenAI fails to become the hero or secure the massive profits they chased. Instead, they leave behind a legacy rebranded as "ClosedAI"
Now. It’s amazing to me that everyone is like fuck OpenAI deepseek is the savior, when OpenAI’s papers and code jump started an AI revolution just a few years ago. Let’s wait the same number of years and see what deepseek does.
Indeed. And the papers were about doing better translation of char sequences, essentially the tech emerged as linguistics improvement for language. Then someone realised the parrot learns enough ZIP and JPEG alongside and can spit back hazy memories of it all.
the one still super useful thing OpenAI ever released must’ve been Whisper. But they could’ve been much more open for sure.