> The answer is that they needed more money.
isn't it still an odd choice for a nonprofit? it's hard to imagine a world without OpenAI and ChatGPT now, but at some point they decided being the best is most important. and presumably most profitable, since why just need a little more money?
Don't all nonprofits need more money to improve their sustainment?
Maybe, but somehow I doubt the American Heart Association is planning to open a chain of pork barbecue restaurants to support its mission against heart disease.
Trivial to imagine everyone switching to Anthropic or Google or on-device LLMs.