Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Chris Unger/Getty Images After ChatGPT drew millions of users to the first mature, widely available LLM-based chatbot, the race was on to build better, bigger, and more versatile AI models for a range of stated and implied purposes: to automate labor; to entertain people; to replace old software; to come up with entirely new types of software; to perhaps accumulate power in less obvious and more ambitious ways; to build some sort of god and hope it