It seems clear that Elon would not have funded it? The idea might not have even existed, the effort might still be unified in Deepmind, with the rest of the space still in denial about immanent generality, for a lack of language demonstrations.
If you’re asking about deeper causality underlying why Elon has always thought that open source would be the safest route, I don’t know if there is any, that might have been a quirk opinion.
It seems clear that Elon would not have funded it? The idea might not have even existed, the effort might still be unified in Deepmind, with the rest of the space still in denial about immanent generality, for a lack of language demonstrations.
If you’re asking about deeper causality underlying why Elon has always thought that open source would be the safest route, I don’t know if there is any, that might have been a quirk opinion.