[Sunhold]

I would rather OpenAI have a diverse base of income from commercialization of its products than depend on "donations" from a couple ultrarich individuals or corporations. GPT-4 cost $100 million+ to train. That money needs to come from somewhere.

[jimmySixDOF]

Then there is the Inference cost said to be as high as $0.30 per question asked based on compute cost infrastructure.