Too many people talk about how to recreate Bell Labs and Xerox PARC; not enough talk about how to recreate OpenAI c. 2015-2019.

Arguably the most interesting adolescence of the most interesting company on the planet today, OpenAI's model is also very different from the previous. How did they do it when Google, DeepMind, etc. couldn't (or didn't), and they didn't have the infinite money fountains of Bell and Xerox?