As a research lab that didn't have any sort of product for the better part of a decade, open (to me) meant "we encourage people to publish research under a perm

As a research lab that didn't have any sort of product for the better part of a decade, open (to me) meant "we encourage people to publish research under a permissive license and full copies to preprint servers." Scroll through https://openai.com/research https://openai.com/research and consider if that's open research or not.