It's less about engineering ability. For sure, OpenAI has phenomenal technical talent, but large tech co's do too, and in fact, many of them have internal developments that match (maybe exceed) GPT3 / ChatGPT.
It's more about organizational bureaucracy, innovator's dilemma, organizational priority, risk tolerance given the scrutiny they're under, etc.
The “Innovator’s Dilemma” mostly is about “low end disruption” when a product by the leader in a category “over serves the market”. Nothing about this fits that pattern.
It's more about organizational bureaucracy, innovator's dilemma, organizational priority, risk tolerance given the scrutiny they're under, etc.