Yup, if you look at the big tech players OpenAI is a big threat to them.
Google is getting hammered and can't keep up, the Facebook 'metaverse' imploded, Apple is focused on AR/VR as well and with the GPU resources as limited as they are it's hard to catch up to OpenAI. Microsoft of course benefits from OpenAI but they mostly see it as a tool to enhance their existing software (like Adobe) not to replace it.
OpenAI circumvents all the privacy/data/oversight/commitees/censorship etc. regulations that have been put into place to 'regulate' the internet and big tech for the past 20 years or so. Most of that regulation has also been designed to mostly benefit the big players like Facebook and Microsoft. Giving stuff like Custom GPT to the community means that anyone anywhere can create their own army of AI bots. After so much time and effort has been spent to take away power from developers with red tape OpenAI hands it back to them in a back way.
Internally at openAI there was already a rift. Sam wanted more people to use it and popularize it and throw resources at that so he could raise additional funds for expanding research. While the research team considered all these 'toys' and marketing a waste of money and wants the resources put into research first and foremost while limiting best models to a select few until it is deemed 'safe' for consumption.
They want to trickle this out through the appropriate corporate channels but I think it's too late and the cat is already out of the bag.
It will slow them down from making more progress as fast though allowing corporations and legislation to try and catch up.
Google is getting hammered and can't keep up, the Facebook 'metaverse' imploded, Apple is focused on AR/VR as well and with the GPU resources as limited as they are it's hard to catch up to OpenAI. Microsoft of course benefits from OpenAI but they mostly see it as a tool to enhance their existing software (like Adobe) not to replace it.
OpenAI circumvents all the privacy/data/oversight/commitees/censorship etc. regulations that have been put into place to 'regulate' the internet and big tech for the past 20 years or so. Most of that regulation has also been designed to mostly benefit the big players like Facebook and Microsoft. Giving stuff like Custom GPT to the community means that anyone anywhere can create their own army of AI bots. After so much time and effort has been spent to take away power from developers with red tape OpenAI hands it back to them in a back way.
Internally at openAI there was already a rift. Sam wanted more people to use it and popularize it and throw resources at that so he could raise additional funds for expanding research. While the research team considered all these 'toys' and marketing a waste of money and wants the resources put into research first and foremost while limiting best models to a select few until it is deemed 'safe' for consumption.
They want to trickle this out through the appropriate corporate channels but I think it's too late and the cat is already out of the bag.
It will slow them down from making more progress as fast though allowing corporations and legislation to try and catch up.
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