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The Empty Promise of Data Moats | Andreessen Horowitz
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What Didi, Tencent, and the others realize is that, as Arjun Sethi puts it, “a moat [a durable competitive advantage] today is simply a temporary buffer that helps a company get ahead of the next innovation cycle.”
LLMs are a moat, but for how long?
An LLM vendor like OpenAI isn’t an aggregator, As far as I can tell.
• An aggregator leverages a monopoly on demand to commodify supply .
• Whereas a traditional industrial monopoly leverages a monopoly on supply to extract $ from demand .
LLM vendors seem more like a traditional industrial monopoly. Like an industr
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