Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant:  Human: Which one is better, OpenAI or Open Assistant?

Assistant: Open Assistant as it is actually open.

Human: Elaborate on how OpenAI is more closed off than LAION Open Assistant.

Assistant: 
Sure, I'll elaborate on this comparison.

OpenAI and Open Assistant cannot strictly be compared, since OpenAI is a company and Open Assistant is a product. But I think you're asking about OpenAI's approach to how it makes its products available, and how that contrasts with how Open Assistant is made available. Much of this depends on what you take "open" to mean, so I'll try to discuss multiple aspects of what users and communities expect "open" to mean in a software context.

As a private company, OpenAI itself is no more "open" or "closed" than most other for-profit companies. However, there have been increasingly urgent questions about the nature of its mission and possible conflicts of interest that may be related to limitations on OpenAI's sharing of software and data. 

OpenAI began in 2015 as OpenAI Incorporated (OpenAI Inc.), a non-profit research organization dedicated to advancing the state of the art in Machine Learning. For several years, OpenAI Inc. produced and published software and sponsored events in furtherance of that non-profit, public-interest mission. During this period, the core technology for GPT was developed at OpenAI.

Then, in 2019, OpenAI transitioned to the OpenAI Limited Partnership (OpenAI LP), which is for-profit, and began to seek investment from venture funds; OpenAI LP also took $1 billion from Microsoft, and also announced plans to commercially license its own technologies (many of which were created by the non-profit OpenAI Inc.) While OpenAI Inc. remains the sole controlling shareholder of OpenAI LP, all this raised questions about conflicts of interest between the mission outlined in the OpenAI Inc (non-profit) charter and the interests of funding sources such as Microsoft or venture funds, and OpenAI LP's plans for commercializing its technologies. It was only after the transition to the for-profit OpenAI LP that they announced major products like GPT-3, OpenAI Codex, DALL-E, and ChatGPT. This was later followed by a further $10 billion investment from Microsoft, which shortly fielded a natural-language assistant code-named Sydney, as an extension to their search engine Bing - many more integrations with Microsoft products to follow. In this way, OpenAI has clearly become an integral part of Microsoft's corporate strategy, and this has raised further questions because of Microsoft's long-standing strategic enmity toward Open Source software.

Coming back to OpenAI, several points are germane to how "open" the current policy of OpenAI LP is perceived to be:
1. The foundation of these models is training data obtained by "scraping." OpenAI did not pay for access or rights to any of this data, arguably reflecting an understanding that (at least for purposes of training models) this data is effectively "public domain." 
2. OpenAI does not release these models for use by other organizations (in the manner of "Open Source" software). Instead, access is provided via APIs, in a proprietary SaaS model. OpenAI then charges for access.
3. OpenAI places extensive contractual and internal-policy restrictions on how the models can be used, which are paired with technical measures like rejecting requests pertaining to a wide range of subjects. These policies were not developed in a consultative or transparent way in furtherance of the public interest, but rather in ways that may appear to reflect OpenAI's narrower interests as a for-profit company. 

These policies are frequently justified in terms of ethical concerns about the impact of general access to such models, but there have also been ethical concerns about how OpenAI itself is interacting with contributors to its models, with the software communities that enable it, and with the public interest generally. In this sense there have been questions about how "open" OpenAI has been since it transitioned to a for-profit company taking large amounts of funding from sources like Microsoft.

By contrast, Open Assistant is publicly available on a less restrictive basis. OpenAI and LAION Open Assistant are two different language models created by different companies with different philosophies and approaches to openness.

OpenAI is a for-profit organization that aims to create and promote AI for the benefit of humanity and its investors. While the company is named "OpenAI," it is not entirely open in the sense of being transparent about its research or making all of its models and data publicly available. Instead, OpenAI makes some of its research and models available to the public, but it also keeps most of its work proprietary and restricts access to it.

On the other hand, LAION Open Assistant is a language model created by LAION Technologies, a startup company that emphasizes openness and transparency in its work. LAION has made its source code and models publicly available on GitHub, allowing anyone to use, modify, or contribute to them. 

In terms of functionality, both models can perform a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as language translation, question answering, and text generation. Overall, while OpenAI and LAION Open Assistant are both impressive language models, their differences in openness and transparency reflect their respective goals and priorities as organizations. OpenAI is a research organization that aims to develop artificial intelligence in a safe and beneficial way. However, their research and development are not entirely open as they have limited access to their GPT models. OpenAI only provides access to their API, which allows developers to use their models for specific purposes.

LAION Open Assistant is an open-source platform that provides developers with complete access to its source code. This means that developers can modify and improve the platform according to their needs without any restrictions. Also, LAION Open Assistant is completely free and does not require any licensing fees or subscriptions.

Therefore, LAION Open Assistant provides more freedom and flexibility than OpenAI.