Agreed that may be the case but all OpenAI needs to do is release a nice UI for GPT and they've suddenly pushed these SaaS out of the market. Why fund miners over the companies making pickaxes?
That will probably happen. But it will take some time. Twitter did that. At first they were super open let everyone build apps, then they started blocking and copying the most popular ones, or acquiring them.
However, the companies will probably soon be able to switch out the LLM they are using, so potentially they could use Google’s PaLM, or Facebook’s Llama, or some open source LLM, who knows.
They can also fine-tune the models for just-your-data, so that the responses for you are better than just using a general LLM.
I think the key is that OpenAI wants to focus on building AGI and not waste time appeasing users requests for UX shortcuts for GPT powered code search. Sure, they can hire an extra team to manage the user's requests for UX, but at that point they're moving away from their target goal.
That takes time and money on OpenAI's behalf. Alternatively they can aquire Bloop after Bloop does all the leg work of integrating their niche with chat GPT. But I agree its a tenuous place to be in as an investor / employee / cofounder of a startup that is at OpenAI's mercy. This model of relying on another vendor's product to base your own saas product on has worked in the past, and it has also failed in the past.
or a few iteration down ChatGPT will create that UI too.
In the future it will not be a "boring" text chat but an interface that always morphs into the specific task you are asking it about.
