They withheld GPT-4 for eight months, but continued development based on it and provided access to third parties and entered into agreements with the likes of M

They withheld GPT-4 for eight months, but continued development based on it and provided access to third parties and entered into agreements with the likes of Microsoft/Bing, etc. All they did was impair their competition that were still struggling to catch-up with their previous offering, while continuing to plow ahead in the dark.