The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community.

Google have already found it difficult to keep their advantages protected from competitors such as OpenAI, and now that the wider research community are collaborating in the open they’re going to find it even harder

And in the end,  OpenAI doesn’t matter . They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.