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Reminds me of an early rumor back when Sam Altman was fired (and briefly re-hired) that the old board allegedly was very much against the GPT store.

I kind of get why now. It arguably doesn't really aid in the non-profit's mission to pursue AGI, or share the benefits of AI with humanity, or any of that stuff. Doesn't even seem to be much of a worthwhile endeavor from a purely money-making perspective either.



But it does keep users in OpenAI ecosystem vs. the competition.


Yeah, but does it matter? Most of their revenue comes from enterprise clients and it seems more likely that someone is going to create a killer app for AI by leveraging APIs and publishing their work on traditional distribution channels rather than creating something that only works on a relatively niche platform.

Like, hypothetically, if Anthropic took the lead in this effort, I don't think it would derail OpenAI's plans in the slightest.


Users on the platform provide training data that can be used to improve the platform which attracts more users in a classic snowball/flywheel effect.




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