Gurley says OpenAI only exists because Google's attention mechanism was open-sourced, not patented.
“OpenAI doesn't exist today if that's patented and controlled. There's it just doesn't, which is another irony around this open source argument because they've been infringed from massively from a major but the idea of being shared, and this is also why I'm such a massive open source proponent”
Gurley questions why drug patents get seventeen years of protection while software patents are difficult to obtain.
“I don't know that seventeen years makes any sense whatsoever and why that industry gets protected down to a very minute detail of innovation, whereas it's very hard to have a software patent.”