Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
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Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker? Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their own products? Is selling tokens really the best strategy? Especially with commodification and prices declining wouldn't that indicate there is…
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