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It's interesting to think about it this way. I'm sure serious competitors are just around the corner, at least Bard will catch up, No doubt Apple has something

It's interesting to think about it this way. I'm sure serious competitors are just around the corner, at least Bard will catch up, No doubt Apple has something in the works, there's little to zero doubt about that. So do they make a huge capital investment hoping that growth will continue at this trajectory, or do they back off the gas pedal ? I bet there's also some contentious ideas going on internally too. If they go on a huge hiring spree, does that kind of invalidate the product which is supposed to replace everyone? How do the optics look there? Do they hire and fire once GPT-5 becomes a sentient AGI? Google already has a huge engineering team, operates are unprecedented scale, and IMO has a much more diverse set of products to integrate with, they also solve a lot of novel solutions which they require specialized engineers that can't be replaced easily by "AI". Be interesting to see how it plays out. Maybe a victim of their own success ?

Rastonbury 4y ago
The cynic in me sees they are making a vendor lock-in play, the API is dirt cheap so much so that every other bespoke chatbot or language model is now obsolete - every chat startup is now switching to OpenAI. Once everyone has their prompts and embeddings tuned and is serving customers, OpenAI can dial up the price and customers chose to keep paying or redo their prompts/embeddings to switch to Bard or the next competitor. It does seem like business as usual if you relied on GPT-3 now ChatGPT, then whatever iteration comes next, probably won't work the same, so its not a heavy heavy lift. Decent platform risk, I believe OpenAI shutdown Codex so now everyone who had a product based on Codex has to switch to ChatGPT
- ChatGTP 4y ago
  I don’t know a lot about codex, but was this a more standard interface used by other providers ?
  - Rastonbury 4y ago
    It was their model for code and what was used for Github copilot, was also used by Replit

Rastonbury 4y ago

The cynic in me sees they are making a vendor lock-in play, the API is dirt cheap so much so that every other bespoke chatbot or language model is now obsolete - every chat startup is now switching to OpenAI. Once everyone has their prompts and embeddings tuned and is serving customers, OpenAI can dial up the price and customers chose to keep paying or redo their prompts/embeddings to switch to Bard or the next competitor. It does seem like business as usual if you relied on GPT-3 now ChatGPT, then whatever iteration comes next, probably won't work the same, so its not a heavy heavy lift. Decent platform risk, I believe OpenAI shutdown Codex so now everyone who had a product based on Codex has to switch to ChatGPT

ChatGTP 4y ago
I don’t know a lot about codex, but was this a more standard interface used by other providers ?
- Rastonbury 4y ago
  It was their model for code and what was used for Github copilot, was also used by Replit