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Here is my 2 cents on OpenAI buying Windsurf + appointing a "CEO of applications".
There is a concept that was popularized during the big telco era called "wholesale transfer pricing" which is effectively the ability of a supplier to extract margin from everyone else in the value chain, most notably the consumption laye... See more
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イライザの曽根岡CEO「選ばれる生成AIつくる」:日本経済新聞
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OpenAIの最近の動き、とくにWindsurfを買収したりCEO of appsを任命したりなどの「モデル開発よりもアプリ層への進出」が活発な理由についての明快な解説。
シンプルに言えば、サプライチェーンのどこかで独占的なポジションを得ているプレイヤーがいれば利益はそこに全集中する、というもの。このような場合、そのプレイヤーはサプライチェーンの上流や下流に進出する必要がない。
以前はモデル層とアプリ層(ChatGPT)の両方で圧倒的地位にあったOpenAIだが、CursorやWindsurfといったアプリ層で強力なプレイヤーが現れて、モデルは自由に切り替えるものになった。その... See more
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OpenAI had a significant lead from summer 2022 through spring 2024 when Google and Anthropic caught up to GPT-4. 7ish quarters of dominance as a result of being the first to aggressively bet on the traditional scaling “law” for pre-training.
Being first to reasoning with o1 only led to a few months of advantage.___LINEB... See more