Comment by stingraycharles

> throwing a half baked model out for the public to go ham on?

I think that’s underselling their contribution, which I believe is mainly: it’s possible and this is what it looks like as a product. Until that time, nobody had figured out how to shape it as a product, and ChatGPT showed how to do that. Don’t forget that for a year or two they kept making headlines all the time with Dall.E and whatnot.

For me it seems like what happened after that is where the lack of focus started to hurt them: they realized that models themselves will be a commodity and have no moat, and that they needed to somehow build a network or something to keep pulling people back in. Sora was one such attempt, and it failed hard.

To me, enterprise / B2B seems like a much easier, obvious market to approach, but I don’t know a lot about B2C. But it seems like B2C was what OpenAI was going after.