> I'm kind of worried that the new OpenAI direction would turn off API access entirely. That is a good point, I didn't consider people who had built a business

> I'm kind of worried that the new OpenAI direction would turn off API access entirely. That is a good point, I didn't consider people who had built a business based on Gpt-4 access. It is likely these things were Sam Altman ideas in the first place and we will see less such productionalization work in the future from OpenAI. But since Microsoft invested into it I doubt it will get shut down completely, Microsoft has by far the most to lose here so you got to trust that their lawyers signed a contract that will keep these things available at a fee.