Another consideration here is whether or not OpenAI specifically is inherently special relative to other systems. ChatGPT is popular, because most of the world

Another consideration here is whether or not OpenAI specifically is inherently special relative to other systems. ChatGPT is popular, because most of the world has looked at it (myself included) and thought “wow”, but I don’t know what Google, Microsoft or anyone else has running in their labs. Google’s LAMDA demo some time back was incredibly impressive, but it’s not led to anything publicly released yet, so comparisons can’t be made. Microsoft may not be interested in OpenAI because they’ve looked at it and thought they’re further ahead with some new Cortana buried in a basement in Redmond.