There's no rush. This space is so immature and yet so plainly ripe that there's little benefit to being first. Leapfrogging with matured market insight is where the big winners live.

OpenAI will have a secure home with Microsoft, but aren't positioned to run away with anything anytime soon. They're at least as likely to be the Altavista to Google Search, the Napster to Spotify, the MySpace to Facebook, etc