alt Hacker NewsSounds about right. About the only way you could justify the projection of making so much hand over fist.
But can they actually pull it off? Since the open models are kind of able to pull off the same things.
Maybe they can brute force faster, but not releasing allows another to scoop it.
Public closed-source models remain superior on paper, to the best of my knowledge.
Now, consider they have one, two or three generations of models being tested and toyed around before being released.
Those would be the ones used for breakthroughs.