Comment by MatekCopatek

I've commented about this before, I think many LLM based apps nowadays are at risk of being replaced by a product straight from the labs once they prove to be successful.

We've seen this pattern with Apple making their own version of an app that was previously popular on the app store.

The labs are in a perfect position to do this - they have a bunch of data on what's being used and they have direct access to their own models/compute. If an external service is popular, it's relatively trivial for them to estimate how much additional profit they're leaving on the table.

If the usecase isn't far from their core business (and things like this absolutely aren't), with their size, why wouldn't they eat other people's lunches?