33 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 27 Aug 2023 \ on: Brave Browser added an AI Assistant - LEO meta
Seems like everyone and their grandma is pushing out an LLM option, but I'm still not understanding what is the business model behind all of this? I get open AI and these guys are selling API calls but what are these other guys doing to make money?
Google is burning cash trying to catch up with BARD and Microsoft has added it to paid products like Office to keep that monopoly going and also trying to offer it in Bing search which makes some money off ads, but for the other services like I recently saw a travel agency launch an LLM, like is it going to convince you to buy a ticket?
I think this stuff is another hype train like lets tokenise everything
Those companies are all toast. Companies in the middle, interfacing directly with OpenAI or Bing.
Any SAAS business is in the cross-hairs. Not unless they own decades of the data and are the glue to these retail systems.
Heck even advertising I believe is going to be crazy different.. if no one is paid for customers clicking through to find articles (if any answer is available at the drop of the hat). These LLMs will just order what they know you want already, potentially without asking.
What I’m really intrigued about is fully autonomous 1 or 0 person companies that achieve scale. Can’t wait to see more of that.
But to answer your questions, there’s going to be an LLM for everyone. It’s going to be so trivial to customize them to your preferences, already almost becoming a commodity.
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