please... the past ten years is a story of companies loosing money for getting a monopoly and you are still asking us why would they do that?
let's not forget the shift of narrative that "open" AI made from their name, their marketing and use of opensource and then their move to a commercial subset of microsoft. let's also not forget that they totally avoided discussing copyrights and the crawlings of datasources to extract knowledge from someone else property. the only close thing i can see today which avoided so much scrutiny while being highly sensitive are ICOs in crypto and Theranos in biotech.
They promised to create a lab where the benefits of AI would accrue to the people, not just existing tech giants.
They did that. They created a API where individuals and small businesses alike can use cutting edge AI technology via API. You have to pay, that's the only catch.
I don't see a DeepMind API.
I don't see an Anthropic API.
I don't see a Google Bard API.
I don't see a FB Galactica API.
let's not forget the shift of narrative that "open" AI made from their name, their marketing and use of opensource and then their move to a commercial subset of microsoft. let's also not forget that they totally avoided discussing copyrights and the crawlings of datasources to extract knowledge from someone else property. the only close thing i can see today which avoided so much scrutiny while being highly sensitive are ICOs in crypto and Theranos in biotech.
I wish opensource win this battle.