Ask HN: Why call it an AI company if all it does is call open AI API?

Not being a hater since I also leverage open ai api heavily in my projects but to call it AI project would be silly.

It’s just like building on top of AWS or GCP.

Open AI is an AI company. Extending LLMs projects like memory for chat gpt etc are AI projects.

Some two minute UI that makes a call to open ai to show you “As a large language model …” is not impressive and NOT an AI company.

Isn’t it a lie basically to claim so? Or am I missing something.

In my case I’m building a dev tool that uses open ai product in the workflow. My product is NOT an AI company. It’s a dev tool for app developers.

ESL btw.