Money Was All You Needed: essay argues OpenAI killed open AI research
Expensive-Click-123 · reddit · 2026-11-13
An industry veteran publishes a long-form essay, "Money Was All You Needed: Open AI Research Is Dead and OpenAI Killed It," arguing that the body of open research has drifted away from the frontier and the frontier no longer publishes—companies have pulled cutting-edge capability work in-house for competitive reasons, decoupling public research output from the actual capability frontier. The author admits much of it is "water is wet" but is soliciting feedback from researchers still in the publishing grind. Full text at mahae.dev, amid ongoing debate about frontier labs withdrawing from open science.
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