(being a bit of a devil's advocate because I honestly haven't formed an opinion yet since I don't know much; these are genuine questions) If it weren't for the

(being a bit of a devil's advocate because I honestly haven't formed an opinion yet since I don't know much; these are genuine questions) If it weren't for the spinning up the private company, perhaps they wouldn't have the money to get where they are now and they would be yet another snow flake in the AI Winter? How much of that was achieved while the company was a non-profit and how much was the value added once they spun off the for profit company? Did OpenAI the non-profit give any secret sauce to the for-profit arm? How does this relate to the many spinoffs from educational institutions that also receive donations and/or taxpayer money?