I am not convinced that going for profit is in the long term financial interest of the organization. Productizing will require diverting resources from foundati

I am not convinced that going for profit is in the long term financial interest of the organization. Productizing will require diverting resources from foundational research to monetization. Moreover, the brain drain from this move is predictable because the top people in the field are largely wealthy enough that they don't need to choose where they work solely on compensation. Even if they are motivated by compensation, they may be looking around and thinking both that Altman's approach is reckless and that it is a distraction from the core research. This would give them confidence that they can beat Altman in the long term by focusing on research and creating an environment that is most attractive to the best researchers in the field while he is busy chasing dollars today by scaling out what they already have rather than truly innovating. There is plenty of money sloshing around (see Ilya, e.g.) so it's not like they will struggle finding funding. Now, it could be the case that there is some incredible insider tech that we don't know about publicly, but if they are way ahead of everyone it is hard to see from the public information. It certainly does not look good when the early employees who actually built the technology are leaving and the businessman who has a track record of lies, manipulation and a general lack of human empathy is consolidating power, abandoning the company's core mission and asking for huge amounts of funding along with a plan to extract an enormous amount of the world's natural resources to serve his profit margins. In other words, I am quite suspicious that Sam Altman is a ruthless con man. That is what all the reporting I've seen around him most strongly suggests. I don't believe it is in the long term interest of an organization to be helmed by that kind of leader. I could be wrong, but I am still waiting for the people who have left to clarify that his leadership had nothing to do with their departures.