ah this is what Altman meant when he said there are "still things OpenAI wants to do as a private company" - squeeze Anthropic ahead of its IPO
i agree but there are different purposes at work. an academic talk is structured to lend legitimacy to the work and the researchers, to advance the field. an industry talk often has elements of advertising or entertainment that would be seen as illegitimate in academia, even if that sucks
i see we're entering a tiered information system where AI companies declare their models to be uniquely enabling and then choose which customers are allowed access.