Ideas on how to build products that OpenAI doesn't make obsolete when they update their model

Iyanuoluwa Ajao
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When ChatGPT launched in November 2023, many startups were made obsolete. For example, JasperAI, copyai, and even grammarly. Personally, I now use ChatGPT to correct the grammar in my articles. This got me thinking: how do you build an enduring product in this AI revolution? Apple launched their Apple Intelligence and it comes with a Writing Tools feature. This is basically a free grammarly integrated into the operating system. How do you compete with something like that? Lets not forget that Apple has a reputation of sherlocking products. Does anyone has ideas on how to build enduring product? So far, some of the ideas in my mind are to 1. Build a product that can't be replicated inside a chatbot interface; 2. Focus on the outcome, not the output from the LLM; 3. Develop unique process knowledge; 4. Curate unique data.

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Mike Wu
One approach is to focus on reliability and robustness. I imagine that OpenAI focuses on working "most of the time" in a wide variety of settings but for many applications, that may not be good enough.
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