@r000t @p @adiz burning all that money was the entire point of OpenAI, and I suspect other companies have tried the same thing. They figured that if they built a 'moat', in the form of "we spend $100B to get this far", that they could effectively monopolize the market that way, because nobody would or could try to match it. The problem is, like with certain economic policies, is that eventually you run out of other people's data. So now they're left with an incredibly enormous industrial capacity for processing data into a model, where there's no more good new data to use. The Tiger tanks have no gasoline.