> Another thing people often neglect is that OpenAI basically owns the API design right now. An API schema is not a moat if it can be easily copied, which is w

> Another thing people often neglect is that OpenAI basically owns the API design right now. An API schema is not a moat if it can be easily copied, which is what has happened. Companies also cannot copyright/patent an API schema (in most cases anyways). The proliferation of the OpenAI API schema is the exact opposite of a moat. It's very trivial to come up with another REST API implementation for LLMs if necessary, there's just no reason now due to the way LLM I/O works.