Other than 1) Microsoft and 2) anyone building a product with the OpenAI api 3) OpenAI employees…
…is OpenAI crashing a burning a big deal?
This seems rather over hyped… everyone has an opinion, everyone cares because OpenAI has a high profile.
…but really, alternatives to chatGPT exist now, and most people will be, really… not affected by this in any meaningful degree.
Isn’t breaking the strangle hold on AI what everyone wanted with open source models last week?
Feels a lot like Twitter; people said it would crash and burn, but really, it’s just a bit rubbish now, and a bunch of other competitors have turned up.
…and competitive pressure is good right?
I predict: what happens will look a lot like what happened with Twitter.
Ultimately, most people will not be affected.
The people who care will leave.
New competitors will turn up.
Life goes on…
Now turns out Linux is the workhorse everywhere for running workloads or consuming content. Almost every programming language (other than Microsoft's own SDKs) gets developed on Linux, has first class support for Linux and Windows is always an afterthought.
It has gone to that extent that to lure developers, Microsoft has to embed a Lunux in a virtual machine on Windows called WSL.
Local inference is going to get cheaper and affordable and that's for sure.
New models would also emerge.
So OpenAI doesn't seem to have an IP that can withstand all that IMHO.