There is a difference between a model, a product, and a network.

OAI has a solid handle on the latter two.

800,000,000 users a month last I saw them report. 10% of the world population a month is no joke.

That isn’t to say they are worth it, I am commenting that “the model” isn’t the important part.

There is more to a car than its engine. Even among our people, no one really cares about engines anymore.

If they go out of business tomorrow, those 800M users aren't going to just stop using LLMs. They'll shift to other providers.

If Google stops working tomorrow, will we all just go back to looking up stuff in the library, or switch to Bing?