Being able to control their every move, scale them to whatever capacity is required, avoid payroll taxes, health plans and surprise co-pay costs, equity sharing, etc might make this worthwhile for many companies.
That said, the trade-off is that you're basically hiring consultants since they really work for OpenAI :)
The benefit to an emoloyee is that you don't have to control their every move. They can do work while you aren't even thinking about the problem they are solving.
That said, the trade-off is that you're basically hiring consultants since they really work for OpenAI :)