“The core algorithms we use today have remained largely unchanged from the ~90s. Not only that, but any algorithmic advances published in a paper somewhere can be almost immediately re-implemented and incorporated.”

The fact that these two statements have opposing ideals really highlights the hypocrisy of these billionaires. Ilya’s statement is just them trying to convince themselves that what they’re working on is still a noble cause even if OpenAI isn’t actually “Open”.