Comment by esafak
1 hour ago
> Consumers would just use the underlying foundational models directly to solve their problem. ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini are the products, not your business.
How am I going to use ChatGPT instead of, say, Figma or an office suite with my coworkers?? It's no use for it to spin up a clone for me if my coworkers can't collaborate. And if they can, what it will serve is a product.
How can it be cheaper for every company to re-invent the wheel?
> Products are only viable when you do a lot of work to solve a problem, which is then shared by many potential customers.
Yes, that's what businesses pay services for.
> How can it be cheaper for every company to re-invent the wheel?
Companies not matching their prices to current reality, mostly.
There are already free, open source clones of numerous things but companies still pay for commercial versions. Do you think LLMs that you have to pay for are going to change that?