They have the next iteration of GPT Sutskever helped to finalize. OpenAI lost it's future unless they find new same caliber people.
How do you know that they have the next GPT?
How do you know what Sutskever contributed? (There was talk that the most valuable contributions came from the less well known researchers not from him)
It's going to get orders of magnitude less expensive, but for now, the capital requirements feel like a pretty deep moat.
I think academia and startups are currently better suited to optimize tinyml and edge ai hardware/compilers/frameworks etc.