Wizard of Oz. There is no magic, it's all smoke and mirrors.

The models and prompts are all monkey-patched and this isn't a step towards general superintelligence. Just hacks.

And once you realize that, you realize that there is no moat for the existing product. Throw some researchers and GPUs together and you too can have the same system.

It wouldn't be so bad for ClopenAI if every company under the sun wasn't also trying to build LLMs and agents and chains of thought. But as it stands, one key insight from one will spread through the entire ecosystem and everyone will have the same capability.

This is all great from the perspective of the user. Unlimited competition and pricing pressure.