Travis Hoium

It used to be Alphabet's going to get killed by OpenAI because search is going to be destroyed.

Instead, they're just transitioning search.

But you have an established customer base and an established business

It makes sense to stay in that business that you know so well.

I think on the opening eye side, like Anthropic, starting from scratch, you need to earn customers.

The cost of acquiring a customer in almost any business is high, so you want to go after the customers with the highest payout.

That's on the enterprise side.

Again, we'll see what becomes a consumer AI.

Maybe we all will pay hundreds of dollars a month for these magical tools that make our lives better.

There's time to fight that out if and when that happens.

For now, if you are trying to build a business, you need to see your efforts generate revenue.

And clearly, I mean, I don't think this is unique to AI or anything like that.

Clearly, the enterprise is the customer to go to get that.

Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways, especially if you are trying to get to the IPO.

But it's just striking how many things they've tried that were supposed to be the future of technology, the future of artificial intelligence, and they just didn't really work out.

So we will see where OpenAI goes.

I'm sure we're going to be talking about this again soon.

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