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The play OpenAI is making has nothing to do with the underlying models any more. They release good ones but it doesn't really matter, they're going for being the place people land when they open a web browser. That is incredibly sticky and not easily replaced. Being the company that replaces the phrase "oh just Google it" is worth half the money in the world, and I think they're well on their way to getting there.

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But that also makes them the product itself and requires standalone profitability which is not at all like the Windows' analogy being presented.

I agree, in general. I don't know what the world looks like in 10 years if all of the weird attempts at fitting an LLM as a replacement to what we have currently actually works, however. Facebook is probably the closest analogy, where there's plenty of room to grow, but at some point you're going to have the OS builders shut down your efforts unless you want to build your own OS.

I do say ChatGPT when referring to LLMs/genAI in general, but I do hate saying it as it is nowhere near as nice to say as "google". I will switch immediately once something better comes up.

“Chat” is already in the youth lexicon, originally referring to an amorphous blob of live stream viewers. It now kind of refers to a non-existent but omnipresent viewer of your life.

I think ChatGPT might turn into just “chat” as the next evolution of the term.

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