Yes.

> Openai finally built something resembling ai. Big tech wasn’t innovating, I personally don’t care if employees at openai capture a ton of the upside

And if they called themselves ClosedAI I don't think people would mind so much; it's the dishonesty that's grating.

Isn’t this part for the course for an Elon project? Jokes aside (in this case I actually agree with him that openness is critical if the society starts really relying on AI), there would still be a need for a free model. There is too much at stake to rely on a single black box in that area.

It does. Very much. We do not want to have to rely on government intervention and unforced errors to avoid an AI wasteland like we used to have with operating systems and web browsers. Particularly as these things are trained using our collective “wisdom” (well, production anyway) only to be sold back to us.