I think the issue here was with the term genius, which makes it sounds like what was a completely new paradigme and revolutionary.

OpenAIs success mainly stems from extremely well executed previous concepts while mostly ignoring cost. And as they're pretty much the most successful public player in this domain, they've got the first-mover advantage which they're currently very succesfully leveraging. At least thats how it looks from the perspecitve of an armchair analysts, which wouldn't have been able to achieve the same -- even if I had the same resources and time.

The actual result is absolutely incredible however, regardless wherever the road to this end was genius or not