alt Hacker NewsIf OpenAI was the only company doing this that argument might sort of make sense.
The problem is they have real competition now and that market now looks like an expensive race to an undifferentiated bottom.
If someone truly invents AGI and it’s not easily copied by others then I agree it’s a whole new ballgame.
The reality is that years into this we seem to be hitting a limit to what LLMs can do with only marginal improvements with each release. On that path this get ugly fast.
As far as Consumer LLMs go, they don't really have competition. Well they do, but it's more Google vs Bing than Android vs Apple. 2nd place is a very very distant 2nd and almost all growth and usage is still being funneled to Open AI. Even if it's 'easily copied', getting there first could prove extremely valuable.