[chaoz_]

right,

or giant corps will treat such startups as marketplace app creators for their LLM API and kinda "outsource" the innovation, while providing the platform and enjoying API income?

[didgeoridoo]

That’s assuming there is API income to be had. Assuming the “We Have No Moat” memo is accurate, the open source models may soon catch up to GPT4-level performance—and especially if inference compute requirements drop to consumer-level specs, there won’t be any money on the table.

[karmasimida]

Well there isn’t a sure way to guarantee they won’t tap into your business

Just look at Apple

They eventually will, and it is totally legitimate for them to do so.