Sam Altman on OpenAI's lead in generative AI (2023)

Look, the way this works is we're going to tell you, "It's totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models, you shouldn't try and it's your job to, like, try anyway."  And I believe both of those things.   It think it is pretty hopeless, but...

~ Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, June 8, 2023