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Everybody wants to control the AI chat interface because... duh... controlling the starting point of information discovery and commerce is ultimate power. The Ring.. Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring. What we are seeing is the proliferation of starting points. AI has created a competitive crack in Google's search armor.

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So, what exactly has OpenAI done differently? Expanding on Altman’s comments and adding a few others.

• Going to market with a consumer and an enterprise product. ChatGPT Enterprise just launched. There’s ChatGPT Plus for $20/month for consumers. Is ChatGPT just product-led growth for the enterprise product, or will OpenAI run two playbooks: one to b

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While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to describe current LLMs as “a solution in search of a problem” like cryptocurrency has famously been described as, I do think the description rings true in an overall economic/business sense so far. Was there really a great crying need for new ways to cheat on academic essays? Probably not. Will chatting wi... See more

Around 2002 I attended a private party for Google—before its IPO, when it was a small company focused only on search. I struck up a conversation with Larry Page, Google’s brilliant cofounder. “Larry, I still don’t get it. There are so many search companies. Web search, for free? Where does that get you?” My unimaginative blindness is solid evidence

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