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by Draiken 848 days ago
In my view: none.

Realistically, even if it started to happen, the giants would simply swallow it whole, as they've done very effectively in recent times.

Long gone are the times where a small Google could disrupt a field and debunk everything around it.

OpenAI is half owned by Microsoft already. Without those resources they wouldn't be able to realistically compete against Google. So saying they are a "small startup" for me doesn't compute.

In my view this is a bit of wishful thinking. Today we have so many giants with monopolies that realistically competing in their space can only be done with huge amounts of investment. The one resource that has been dried up recently.