Now they’ve finished feeding them the biggest stumbling block is commercialisation. There has not been one commercially viable model demonstrated across the industry.

The public, used to Siri, Alexa and Google coming ‘free’ with the purchase of other tech have not been eager to pay out an expensive sub for a more advanced version. They’ve been eating as much investor cash as they have data and those people will want a return or funding will dry up.

Apple went the right way by making most of the functionality on-device. This costs them nothing to run on the most part. If a ‘good enough’ model like Apple’s becomes the commercial expectation from the end user ie its a nice free feature as part of the OS how will OpenAI et al convince people to pay up for more?