Altman was in a bit of a tricky position in that he figured OpenAI would need a lot of money for compute to be able to compete but it was hard to get that while remaining open. DeepSeek benefit from being funded from their own hedge fund. I wonder if part of their strategy is crack AI and then have it trade the markets?
The last (only?) language model OpenAI released openly was GPT-2, and even for that the instruction weighted model was never released. This was in 2019. The large Microsoft deal was done in 2023.
