Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
AI summary
Editorial policyA discussion questions why OpenAI or Anthropic do not start their own companies leveraging frontier models instead of selling tokens, suggesting the application side may be more profitable.
Key points
- •It is questioned whether OpenAI or Anthropic could make more money by starting companies that leverage their models and build their own products, given the high performance of frontier models.
- •With commodification and declining prices, it is suggested that there may be more money to be made on the application side of the models rather than selling tokens as a utility.
- •The post serves as a discussion prompt on Hacker News regarding the optimal business strategy for AI model providers.