They've built one of the most successful products in the last decade. It has significantly changed jobs like software engineering in the span of 9 months.
Because, fundamentally, their biggest competitor is Google. A company with a market cap north of 4 trillion. If OpenAI does not spend hundreds of billions of dollars on datacenters, people will migrate to Google, little by little, and OpenAI will became a new Netscape story. A good product eliminated by an incumbent with infinitely deep pockets.
thenaturalist|1 month ago
Surely not money, because why else would they be raising again and again and again to plug their cash outflow?
credit_guy|1 month ago
Grimblewald|1 month ago