Like I said. It's a hijacking and everyone who was involved in the building of this organization knows it now. He might as well be yelling, "this plane is going to Cuba or I'm bringing it down".
The good news is that he's losing and has already lost a lot of his most talented intelligent and conscientious people. That's going to slow the company way down. I think it's still in the lead largely based off of momentum and implementing some fairly obvious technological overhang. Q star and chain of thought have been around for a while in the literature and prototypes. Q star is a blend of that algorithm that powers all your route finding map apps, plus basic incremental reinforcement learning. Chain of thought is a technique that prompters around the world came up with a at least as far back as chat GPT 3.0 and probably were using in llms before that. Yes, 01 is the most effective implementation of that today and good for them but that's management not invention or pushing the cutting edge. People in the open source community we're doing things very much like this on top of weaker systems.
We now know that the board that was forced to resign by the threat of the Microsoft defection, was largely right in their vague accusations even though they mishandled the situation. If I could I wouldn't invest in this company at this point except maybe at a token diversification level. There's going to be a lot of dumb money pouring into it. They they still win but only if the opposition stays disorganized and they substantially out fundraise everybody else because of name recognition. They make it the funds though because Sam Altman seems more than willing to coordinate with the Islamic dictatorships who are desperate to be relevant in the 21st century and still flush with cash for the time being.