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Austin Lyons's avatar

“The key point here is that OpenAI is an application company with its models as its differentiator.” … are the models actually the differentiator? Or might it be the benefits of being the incumbent — brand and distribution? The mass market user might not be comparing models and switching when one is better (model differentiation); rather they just stick with the first app they used (ChatGPT).

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Eric Flaningam's avatar

Great catch, and agree completely. I might have to quote your comment in a future article as you laid it out much more logically:)

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Devansh's avatar

Was going to comment something similar

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Paolo Miscia's avatar

Great piece, thank you. How about OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft: is it relevant at all?

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