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How can't these founders see this happening, too? From the start OpenAI has been getting into more markets than just "LLM provider"


There’s a case for a start up to capture enough market that LLM providers would just buy it out. Think of CharacterAI case.


Character AI was never acquired, it remains independent.


They originally claimed they wouldn’t as to not compete with their API users…


[citation needed]




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