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Seems shift in the focus of company from providing models to providing apps on top of models. I wonder what's the reason, is it they reached some kind of "loca
by throwaw12 3y ago
Seems shift in the focus of company from providing models to providing apps on top of models.
I wonder what's the reason, is it they reached some kind of "local" maximum where they couldn't improve the models anymore or is it related to funding
- dragonwriter 3y agoModels are infrastructure on which applications are built, but if you don't have both the clearly best models and a moat that prevents competitors from catching up, the people making money aren't going to be you selling commodity models, but the people selling applications which can even be model agnostic. And Claude, while it may be the nearest competitor among paid models to OpenAI GPT-4, isn't both clearly best and moat-protected.
- skybrian 3y agoI read somewhere that people would buy an electric motor with various attachments, instead of buying home appliances that contain electric motors like we do now.
- bertil 3y agoIf the motor is the expensive part, that makes sense. In a way, that’s still what some cheap crates of DIY equipment do: they have a drill, a sander, a vibrating polisher, etc. that are all extensions around a handle/motor core, and a couple of batteries.