It is an important information that you don’t really need petabytes of common crawl data to make a highly accurate bot. There are a few other open source models that preform well with significantly smaller training data that OpenAI.
Sure, but the tradeoff is in generalization vs specialization. No one is impressed by the fact that ChatGPT is able to recite facts. Google can do that. Where it becomes interesting is in the general applicability of a single tool to thousands of possible domains.