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The bigger the opportunity, the more general the audience, the juicier the B2B market, the greater the risk. Time was when Jasper was valued more highly than OpenAI. Now it’s flagging and OpenAI is headed for 12 digits… - e-commerce app is a thin ChatGPT wrapper for the shopping experience but their moat is their products and supply chain details - video game using LLM NPCs and other dynamic experiences but their moat is something else like incredible graphics or being based on some known IP - any business based on curation or archival of past LLM responses or interactions, moat could be some quality of that particular data, like other data businesses Short answer: Yes I think so. (Still assuming you are using OpenAI) if your solution implementation has 2% prompts and AI specific stuff and 98% other functionality while AI is still central to your solution then you have possibly a moat. Seems existing systems adding AI are long term AI money makers. Even if you've plugged in OpenAI, the

Ask HN: Do startups building on OpenAI have a defensible moat? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: Do startups building on OpenAI have a defensible moat? 7 points by sabrina_ramonov on May 5, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments blueboo on May 5, 2024 | next [–] They’re a PM’s whim away from being steamrolled by their foundation model vendor. And these startups are doing the product market fit for them The bigger the opportunity, the more general the audience, the juicier the B2B market, the greater the risk. Time was when Jasper wa

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