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> the only reason they got exist in the first place and got to this point, is by pitching themselves as an 'open'

What supports this? In Column B are conventionally-structured AI projects.

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[1] OpenAI’s Nonprofit received approximately $130.5 million in total donations, which funded the Nonprofit’s operations and its initial exploratory work in deep learning, safety, and alignment.

How many of those conventionally structured AI projects existed before ChatGPT?

Maybe the donations aren't the ONLY reason, maybe they could have done a normal rounding of funding and got here, but they didn't.

I do think it's fair to say that while they got $130m in donations they needed A LOT more money, and so they need to raise somewhere, somehow. To me it's a big gray area though.

[1] https://openai.com/our-structure