The thing about OpenAI as a non-profit that people miss is all the early contributors who poured their time and effort into building the code stack and contributing openly in public. They believed in the mission. This is exactly why it was called OpenAI—it was meant to be built with real transparency so everyone could follow along, audit the work, and call out anything dangerous to humanity.Instead, those same contributors got burned when OpenAI grew massively, closed off the codebase and data,