Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker?Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their own products?Is selling tokens really the best strategy?Especially with commodification and prices declining wouldn't that indicate there is more money to be made on the application-side of the models rather than the utility side
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The article questions why OpenAI sells models instead of creating companies that use them for products.
- The article suggests selling models may not be the most profitable strategy.
- It questions if building applications with models could generate more revenue.
- The idea of commodification and falling prices is mentioned as a factor.
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