Like most things Microsoft gets into they're racing straight to third place from the sizable lead OpenAI has established. ChatGPT took the world by storm just 6 weeks ago, being the first large-scale experiment of RLHF, but competitors are biting at their heels already.
From what's being said on social media, the most common complaints are that each update seemingly trades off capability for more safety. A sound strategy if their goal is to eventually integrate it into Teams as Clippy 2.0. Enterprises would be unhappy about a chatbot that actually answered every question honestly. But that strategy will not win them the consumer market.
Large language models at their core are the application of techniques, data, and training time meaning there is virtually no barrier to entry. The techniques are widely known, the data is widely accessible, and a couple million dollars is not unreachable even for individuals. Just like DALL-E is all but forgotten in the footsteps of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, ChatGPT will soon be eclipsed by free and open models as well.
