Smart way to remain the funnel owner. Let everyone build a plugin, before they integrate your product into theirs.
The play is well know: create a marketplace with customers and vendors like Amazon, Facebook, Google.
But with GPT-4 training finished last summer they had plenty of time for strategy.
that's if competitors catch up on quality
They are led by GPT4 and their CEO is just a Text To Speech Interface ;-)
It may be doable - a chatbot with a lot of plugins does not need to know a lot of facts, just to have a good grasp of language. It can fetch its factual answers from the wikipedia plugin
And yeah, I wouldn't expect them to share any model that is competitive with their current offering. But it can leak, and the copyright situation around that is very unclear at the moment.