Comment by bityard

> Even OpenAI had to pivot away from its original non-profit, open principles to survive and scale.

Uh, no, OpenAI didn't pivot from being open in order to survive.

They survived for 7 years before ChatGPT was released. When it was, they pivoted the _instant_ it became obvious that AI was about to be a trillion-dollar industry and they weren't going to miss the boat of commercialization. Yachts don't buy themselves, you know!