It’s an experimental playground where 99.99% of players are handicapped because they don’t have access to the same volume of training data and hardware resources as the big corporate players. So you’ll have hundreds of iterations of smaller models as people try many different things to narrow the massive gap with OpenAi solutions.

How can it be a “coup” when the board is allowed to hire and fire the CEO?

It’s always better to rent space on a provider cloud. Less hassle , no maintenance and better GPUs.