[riku_iki]

Uber had limited underpowered competition, so they could win starvation game.

OpenAI competes with google, who can drop 50B/y into AI hype for very long time.

[sillyfluke]

the 1.5 mil bonus to tech staff announcement prior to chatgpt 5 release makes even more sense now. They knew it would be difficult to manage public expectations and wanted to counter the short-term (in the best case) drop in morale in the company.

[riku_iki]

I think that 1.5m bonus is likely stocks with 500B valuation. There are other rumors they want outsiders to be allowed to buy stocks with 500B valuation.