Yes, hence the MS deal (they had trouble raising money as a pure research org). Their research can be turned into a product people pay for -- they've done it! My question is: why did the engineers at OpenAI have to do that? Why couldn't they "toss it over the fence" to MS's Azure team and be happy with a revenue share, for example.

MS didn’t buy them, just invested shit ton of money and got a close partnership.

Don’t outsource your money making department to a big tech company. They’ll screw you over, even if they don’t mean to.

They dont make money from authentication systems either