[thirdacc]

>IMO it's the other way around – because OpenAI doesn't focus on any particular market, they'll be launching stuff that later will be easily reproduced by market leaders that have not only know-how, but they have the whole platform where the AI can be easily added.

this is under appreciated. I remember people declaring Perplexity.ai doomed when ChatGPT search came out. Yet Perplexity is doing better than ever, with a service that lets you search with any major LLM, even DeepSeek R1.

Aidan McLaughlin, who now works for OpenAI, wrote a nice essay about this:

https://aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/The-Zero-Day-Flaw-in-AI-...