I wouldn't say they are "in a league of their own," but they are the clear front-runner in a race to become the dominant "generalist AI model" layer in a new ki

I wouldn't say they are "in a league of their own," but they are the clear front-runner in a race to become the dominant "generalist AI model" layer in a new kind of AI software stack that is growing and expanding into new applications very rapidly. Every day, we're seeing (a) more and more tools and plugins that enhance the abilities of OpenAI's generalist models, (b) more and more tools for using OpenAI's generalist models as components of applications, and (c) more and more end-user applications built atop OpenAI's generalist models. Most businesses that want to leverage a generalist AI model cannot afford to develop and train it on their own, especially if the cost of doing so continues to increase as rapidly as expected. In fits and starts, they will eventually settle on using one dominant provider with an industry-standard API.