Brains by API, Value by UX? Curious to hear your thoughts
The other day I was talking with a friend about how companies like Anthropic and ChatGPT sell intelligence through APIs but much of the user-facing value is being created by other companies which use their APIs.
These companies wrap the API (hence the name openAI-wrappers) with clean UX, clever prompts, and just enough orchestration to feel like a full product. They don’t need to build the model, they just need to understand the user’s workflow.
But now, with OpenAI acquiring the hardware startup IO and moving toward building physical products, the lines are starting to blur. Will we end up with one unified interface for general intelligence, or a fragmented ecosystem of domain-specific wrappers?
Super curious to hear where you think this is headed. Also, as a side question, what are your thoughts about all these gpt-wrappers?
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It's a classic question.
You don't just keep building tools without putting them to use to solve real problems.
That's what has been happening in the world of Gen AI...people not putting foundational models to good use and instead trying to train new models when actually foundational models work even better than some of the trained models. Just few months back, after some large-company-CEOs pointed to this direction, that the real application of AI started picking up. Still a lot of ground to cover.