> Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity to attain total dominance of the world economy and they’re going to grab it, inequality be damned. OpenAI wil

> Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity to attain total dominance of the world economy and they’re going to grab it, inequality be damned. OpenAI will likely capture very little of the economic value created by these models. Given that open source alternative are roughly 6 months behind varying by model type (language, image, audio) it's difficult to see them having much long term pricing power. There's no network effect, copyright or sunk cost that stops their customers going to the open source models whose price is just the cost of compute for inference.