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The one who provides the best tools for knowledge workers for free with enough mind-share and time are already at the finish line in the race to zero.

This is why you are seeing lots of AI startups running up the application layer instead of the foundational layer which that has been reduced to $0 thanks to open source and free AI models.

Only a matter of time to see that as AI models get better, the so-called AI startups building on top of third-party AI model APIs will be easily copyable and not many of these startups will survive.

> Every loser and grifter will be gone from technology because there’s nothing to be gained there. They can play golf all day or something.

On top of that, the increase in so-called "AI startups" in the application layer are a mere survival of the fittest testbed for larger companies like OpenAI to see who is worth copying.

It is another scam.



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