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At the end of the day I wonder what openai's endgame is here. They're starting to expand their business in a way that geometrically grows the size of the team, overlapping products that microsoft is offering, making the whole non-profit/capped-profit thing a head scratcher.

I guess you can argue this is just a marginal add-on to their existing ChatGPT product but I can imagine seeing them go full Salesforce/Oracle/enterprise behemoth here.

I would say I'm very pro AI development and pro Sam reinstating but I've been starting to shake my head a bit. Their mission and their ambition are wildly different.

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It’s pretty obvious that once they realized how much money was on the table, the “non-profit” aspirations and goals went out the window. The Altman saga from a few months ago painted this clearly.

How much money is on the table?

GDP bigger than that of the web.

I would assume the endgame is like Microsoft: to become an OS for your org. Knowledge management, human augmentation (code, emails, copilot all the things), data analytics, workflow automations, etc.

The mission changed when research ran into product market fit.

I kinda see it differently. There are these incredible use-cases for what they can do with this technology but still requires massive R&D and politics. They're taking the path of least resistance with these features. They should spin off R&D and let another division handle this low-hanging fruit garbage. But, maybe this is just how a business cycle works. You get a bite and you milk it for what it's worth and let the next generation organization take it to the next level.

This is a way to create moat, you think Zoom can survive open source with just bland features serving moms and pops? That’s how you get them to stay out of open source

> At the end of the day I wonder what openai's endgame is here

Sell AI products to fund making AI

At some point I think there is a conflict though, the more powerful the AI models, the more risk there is to their own business.

Not if they move fast and build that moat to maintain their castle as the only provider of highest-quality models' services.

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