May be I am naive, but these conversational AI companies like open AI, Anthropic et al more or less do the same thing. They are extremely generic in functionality and so each of them strive to do everything. How are they able to differentiate? Even more so, all of them will achieve scale over time. What is the moat for someone like open AI? Is it that they are first and so have users? Enterprise users?
Presumably at some point one of them will achieve singularity and have a self-sufficient superintelligence that will recursively self-improve. I recommend contributing your inputs to the team which you believe is most likely to reach this milestone first because once that happens it is game over for any other AI company.
Ted Chiang has an excellent short story about this situation called "Understand".
I would imagine cost is the main differentiator. I don’t see regulation limiting the number of options any time soon, (this is why OpenAI wants licensing/regulation) so I am assuming prices will continue to fall.
Ted Chiang has an excellent short story about this situation called "Understand".