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Did they really succeed economically though? Or did they jump-start crowd-sourced open source LLM assistant work that will end up giving people ChatGPT for free

Did they really succeed economically though? Or did they jump-start crowd-sourced open source LLM assistant work that will end up giving people ChatGPT for free on their phones. OpenAI seems to have a slight first mover advantage as of May 2023, but it's not a real moat.

seizethecheese 3y ago
Their brand value is worth billions of dollars, right now. Sure they could screw it up, but they objectively have produced a massively positive ROI
- dekhn 3y ago
  if only you could convert brand value into actual dollars.
  - jlund-molfese 3y ago
    You can. You just sell it to another company that wants to start from OpenAI/ChatGPT instead of starting from scratch.
- cj 3y ago
  > massively positive ROI This feels like a stretch considering the massive investments they've received. Massive investments = massive growth expectations
SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
> Or did they jump-start crowd-sourced open source LLM assistant work that will end up giving people ChatGPT for free on their phones Given the computer power required behind ChatGPT isn't that unlikely at this point? Aren't they one of the few games in town with both the software and required hardware?