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There's a typical presumed business intuition that any large company will confer business to a host of "satellite companies" who offer some offshoot of the prod
by atleastoptimal 3y ago
There's a typical presumed business intuition that any large company will confer business to a host of "satellite companies" who offer some offshoot of the product's value proposition but catered to a niche sector. Most of these are however just "OpenAI API + a prefix prompt + user interface + marketing". The issue is (which has been brought up since the release of the GPT-3 API 3 years ago) that no startup can offer much more value than the API alone offers, and thus it's easier, comparatively, than in analogous cases of this type of startup model with other larger companies in the past, for OpenAI to capitalize on this business
- TillE 3y agoThis has been the weirdest part of the current wave of AI hype, the idea that you can build some kind of real business on top of somebody else's tech which is doing 99.9% of the work. There are hard limits on how much value you can add. If you want to build something uniquely useful, you probably have to do your own training at least.