[shimman]

If you gave someone the exact same budgets and resources as the major AI companies, yes I'm sure most humans on this Earth would come up with comparable (and probably even better) plans. Why are we acting as if business magnates have some special quantity in them? Sam Altman isn't an engineer, he's never worked a real job in his life. There's nothing special about him outside of the ability to lie.

If you can hire top talent, why wouldn't you be able to compete on a software level?

What exactly is the moat here?

[senordevnyc]

You could maybe create a better product with a billion dollars, I'll give you that. But that's nowhere near enough to win. It's downright laughable to think that you could beat Slack or Google Workspace with only a billion dollars.

Why do you think Slack sold for $27 billion? Why not just spend a billion and beat them? OpenAI or Anthropic have collectively raised more than $100 billion. What on earth makes you think you could replicate that AND beat them at their own game with only a billion?