I don’t think OpenAI gets enough credit for exposing GPT via an API. If the tech remained only at Google, I’m sure we would see it embedded into many of their products, but wouldn’t have held my breath for a direct API.

They did win back a little bit of their open-ness with the gpt-oss model releases, but I'd like to see updated versions of those.

It was before GPT3 wasn't it?