Comment by benedictevans

4 days ago

You’ve missed the point completely - if the important experiences are things built on top of foundation models, where the model itself is just an API call, then you don’t need to have a foundation model for build them and the model is just commodity infra

Yes, but OpenAI has 900M+ user reach, plus staggering amounts of cash, plus early access + deep integration with the latest and greatest models. I hardly think that is tantamount to "just an API call".

  • Microsoft Google and Meta also had enormous reach, but that didn’t mean that they built everything on the Internet, nor could they.