This is going to come across as contrarian view and get a lot of downvotes - OpenAI is being 'open'. Not Open Source, but Open. They are bringing AGI tech to the common person at affordable pricing. Before OpenAI, all the AI and its use cases were hidden behind closed doors at Google. By kickstarting the AI race, they have created high standards, new knowledge, and enough momentum to hold up the entire startup ecosystem and the US economy. They make hard choices and now the entire industry is moving forward because of their choices.
I don’t have a horse in this race but I’d definitely like to see this viewpoint discussed more.
The open source angle probably matters more to the HN audience but it’s hard to argue that OpenAI hasn’t “opened up access to AI” to a vast global audience.
And that’s not to say that the means by which they’ve done so doesn’t still need some scrutiny.
