They try to dress it up with some high minded safety or China bullshit, but the core of the anti open source arguments is a fear of commodification. AI is something that’s happening mostly due to Moore’s law and general progress in computing, not something that they are doing. Of course they have a strong incentive against you finding this out, because then you might not want to give them billions of dollars.

from geohot's blog post

LLMs as a inevitable consequence of Moore's law is a new framing and I quite enjoy it. I like impersonal explanations of history. OpenAI will keep telling you it was a small team with a bunch of geniuses who are responsible for the breakout AI moment.