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Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

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Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker? Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their own products? Is selli…

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  1. 2026-10-22 21:03 · Hacker News Front Page
    Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

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