the 1.5 mil bonus to tech staff announcement prior to chatgpt 5 release makes even more sense now. They knew it would be difficult to manage public expectations and wanted to counter the short-term (in the best case) drop in morale in the company.
I think that 1.5m bonus is likely stocks with 500B valuation. There are other rumors they want outsiders to be allowed to buy stocks with 500B valuation.
