"Henry Ford did nothing revolutionary, the engineering work in making a car isn't particularly difficult, it's just perceived that way by the public. There will be a half dozen other car manufacturers in 6 months."

LeCun is going too far the opposite way. I would not be surprised if he has access to systems at FAIR that could do something similar, so dismisses the whole thing or misses the main point. But, like Ford, what OpenAI has done with Dalle2 and ChatGPT is make AI useable and available to us benighted common folk.

It doesn't matter whether Google and Meta not releasing something like this is due to a can't or a won't. It's all the same to the rest of humanity who can't use it in either case.