Do you not think money provides some ability to achieve goals? Fund raising is an integral part of most non-profits.

But you ignored the part about influence, would an OpenAI that did not scale up and had no world beating models have much of a say in how AI gets developed

This is not to say that I think they are doing everything right, but I see people bitter that they didn't take the path towards forgotten irrelivance.

What would you reccommend that they should have done that would still lead to them being relevant to the world development of AI?