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ChatGPT is still benefitting from first mover advantage. Which they’ve leveraged to get to the position they’re at today.

Over time, competitors catch up and first mover advantage melts away.

I wouldn’t attribute OpenAI’s success to any extremely smart marketing moves. I think a big part of their market share grab was simply going (and staying) viral for a long time. Manufacturing virality is notoriously difficult (and based on the usability and poor UI of ChatGPT early versions, it feels like they got lucky in a lot of ways)

I think that has more to do with the multiple year head start and multiple tens of billions of dollars in funding advantage.

And you think that is due to their model naming?

I prefer Anthropic's models but ChatGPT (the web interface) is far superior to Claude IMHO. Web search, long-term memory, and chat history sharing are hard to give up.

That's first mover advantage.