Even for the latter point (If true, I'd call this assertion highly questionable), so what?
That's honestly such a academic point, who really cares?
They've been outcompeted and the argument is 'well if we didn't let people access our models, they would of taken longer to get here' so what??
The only thing this gets them is an explanation as to why training o1 cost them more than 5 million or whatever, but that is in the past the datacentre has consumed the energy.. the money has gone up in fairly literal steam.
That's honestly such a academic point, who really cares?
They've been outcompeted and the argument is 'well if we didn't let people access our models, they would of taken longer to get here' so what??
The only thing this gets them is an explanation as to why training o1 cost them more than 5 million or whatever, but that is in the past the datacentre has consumed the energy.. the money has gone up in fairly literal steam.