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It always seemed like loosing bet to implement a startup purely on top of the OpenAI apis. If you do that you have zero moat.


I remember even Sam said this, he said something along the lines that if you are just building something that is effectively a missing feature of ChatGPT or one of there products, they are going to end up replacing you, so you need to be building something more significant.


Proprietary data is the moat in those cases, unless you’re literally a wrapper


That is the conclusion I’ve come to with all of my AI ideas so far. Easy to be replaced by a feature in ChatGPT or Copilot. Hard to create a meaningful moat.


The founders of Conversion.ai / Jarvis / Jasper / whatever they're called today did OK out of it though.




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