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A lot of so-called "AI Startups" today amount to nothing more than a fancy front-end for OpenAI's LLM APIs (and similar setups). Those startups are going to die
by csmpltn 3y ago
A lot of so-called "AI Startups" today amount to nothing more than a fancy front-end for OpenAI's LLM APIs (and similar setups). Those startups are going to die because their only differentiator is a prompt to an otherwise opaque 3rd-party API which they don't really control. Their secret sauce can be trivially replicated without much effort by competitors. Also - they don't really control the models themselves, so they can't do "proper" science when building the product - it becomes an entirely empirical process, subject to the full control of your competitors.
- anaganisk 3y agoSo? Not trying to be snarky here, but I believe how you sell it matters more than what you are selling. People prefer GUCCI shirt even if the same material and color is available for peanuts from a generic brand. OpenAI is not building products, so other competitors will come, but creativity will go a long way.