OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit in 2019, took about $1 billion from Microsoft (there has been speculation that this was mostly in the form of

OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit in 2019, took about $1 billion from Microsoft (there has been speculation that this was mostly in the form of Azure credits), and announced that Microsoft would be their preferred partner for commercializing OpenAI technologies: https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/ https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/ The name is now a complete misnomer. There may still be some benefit for researchers to collaborate with them (same as with any of the other corporate research labs), but anyone trying to build a business on non-public APIs should obviously tread carefully. So, no. You aren't missing anything.