[wasabi991011]

You are acting like there aren't hundreds of well-preserved talks given at programming conferences every year, or that being a good presenter is not a requirement in academic research.

Also, whether OpenAI is a research organization is very much up for debate. They definitely have the resources to hire a good spokesperson if they wanted.

[motoxpro]

I don't know how many conferences you have been to but most talks are painfully bad. The ones that get popular are the best and by people who love speaking, hence why you are seeing them speak (selection bias at it's finest)

They do have the resources (see WWDC), the question is if you want to take your technical staff of of their work for the amount of time it takes to develop the skill

[bongodongobob]

Yeah maybe SV has higher expectations, no idea what these people are talking about. It was fine.