OK but their secret sauce is out there. There are other foundational models. Curious to see if they can create lock-in or network effects with their APIs and such
Realistically nothing performs as well as GPT-4 at the moment. We've seen others make advances but it's still best in class.
at the same time it's very hard to monetize GPT4 because the cost are so high
my uneducated guess is they may aim to get major share of income via selling ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 list, where cost of running probably is not much of a concern
isnt this the basis of the conspiracy theory like ideas around asking for AI regulation from the goverment