Hacker News Reader

People will migrate to Google in light of OpenAI's inability to build anything that makes people want to stay with OpenAI, wouldn't you say?

And, given we're here on HN, have we thrown words like "moat" and "risk" around?

If OpenAI is incapable of building anything that can't be easily copied by a third party, what's their justification for existing?

View on HN

> If OpenAI is incapable of building anything that can't be easily copied by a third party

They can build better models, but for that they need a lot of compute and that's where the billions go. These better models can't be easily copied by a third party, because that third party needs to also throw billions at the problem, and billions don't grow in trees.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com