Right! The Wikimedia Foundation is dead in the water, and everyone except Jimmy knows it. If only it could raise hundreds of millions in capital from investors then they could actually start delivering value and get significant market share.
Pithy response but poor comparison -- Wikipedia's startup costs were in, what, the tens of thousands of dollars? Less?
OAI is burning billions in compute/salary to create their thing, and will spend billions more before truly massive value to society could ever be wrought.
I can't think of a nonprofit structure that has ever effectively allocated that much capital aside from, like, a government.
