Tempting, but you can launch Mistral-7B on your laptop and see the same coherent responses and reasoning from a 8GB model file. The magic is really there.
Perhaps there was some, how to say it, unexpected technology transfer, with Sam somehow involved.
OpenAI fakes their AI to be first to market and then everyone else, thinking that it's possible, finds ways to do it for real.
(this is 100% a joke. I know OpenAI's work is the real deal)