You seem to be conflating a "boring" product with using OpenAI models, but the two have nothing to do with each other. 99% of users don't care what models you're using underneath. They only care how well the product works.
"What stops them from making the same feat again?"
Hopefully nothing, for their sake, because they're going to have to do it again and again to keep up.
Look, I'm not saying this specific product was wrong to build their own models for certain tasks. If it works for their product and they're getting users, then bully for them. I just don't think it's great general advice. I also think it provides a lot less long-term differentiation and competitive edge than the author of the post seems to think.
The whole point was not to make something just for sake of making different. The Chatgpt solution was inferior for being too expensive too general a solution for their problem. Which means that everyone else who relies on openai for their product will hit the same limitations and will end up looking like copycat boring bland service.
> I also think it provides a lot less long-term differentiation and competitive edge than the author of the post seems to think.
This is just an opinion. There are many feats OpenAI cann pull, such as stop updating their product, for whatever reason or starting charging too high price.
"What stops them from making the same feat again?"
Hopefully nothing, for their sake, because they're going to have to do it again and again to keep up.
Look, I'm not saying this specific product was wrong to build their own models for certain tasks. If it works for their product and they're getting users, then bully for them. I just don't think it's great general advice. I also think it provides a lot less long-term differentiation and competitive edge than the author of the post seems to think.