Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
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A Hacker News discussion questions why frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic focus on selling model access rather than using their models to build and scale their own products directly.
Why it mattersThis reflects ongoing debate about the optimal business strategy for AI labs: whether licensing capabilities to others or building consumer/enterprise products captures more value and better utilizes advanced models.
From the source: 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…Read at news.ycombinator.com