It seems obvious in hindsight that almost all ai startups last year would die in a few short weeks to months because openai simply integrated the functionality

It seems obvious in hindsight that almost all ai startups last year would die in a few short weeks to months because openai simply integrated the functionality into their own product -> Assistants, GPTs, GPT Store, ChatGPT for teams and businesses, retrieval, voice, vision etc. I wager that 2/3 of all these startups thought these were clever products to work on back then. The difference is: Openai just drops new features without previous announcement, exceeds expectations and kills these api wrapper products instantly. Compare with google who announces their new ai features beforehand, fails to deliver on time and when delivered doesn't meet expectations.