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OpenAI doesn't need a moat and it's fine that they don't have one. From their charter:

> We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

This was from 2018 and they've taken large strides away from their originally stated mission. Overall, though, they should be happy to have made progress in what they set out to do.

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That's all well and good. I suspect their investors have a pretty different idea about their positioning tho.

Yes...

> "we will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome"

... has big "don't be evil" energy.

I believe the next step was "we can do little a evil, as a treat."

Oh yeah, sure. I'm not sure I care much about that though. MSFT had the opportunity to think through all of this before they invested, OpenAI itself has incredible sums of money, and employees get to work on things they care about.

If MSFT doesn't make anything on this investment—which it still might, given that a big chunk of its investment will likely go into Azure—then…okay.

Note that this implies that if anyone tries to build AGI that is not "safe and beneficial" by OpenAI standards, it's fair game to suppress.

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