OpenAI describes itself as a research and deployment company and deliberately prioritizes research before deployment.

“Um, internally, we call ourselves a research and deployment company, and so with that-- And we kind of structure that in order on purpose, like research comes first and then deployment comes second. Um, and so as we think about, you know, at the end of the day, trying to change the way that people do knowledge work, we kind of work in that order, right?”