I work at OpenAI. The obvious answer is that the models are not presently good enough to start companies.
You could ask the same question about any supplier. If your CPUs are so good, why not assemble PCs? If your lumber is so good, why not build houses? If your vaccine is so good, why not start a chain of pharmacies? Empirically there seems to be benefits of specialization and focus that outweigh the benefits of conglomeration.
Knowing what customers want is crucial, and people who buy our tokens often understand their customers better than we could hope to. The are also opportunity costs. For every bit of effort we expend chasing a new vertical, that’s a bit of effort and focus subtracted from our core competency.
You could ask the same question about any supplier. If your CPUs are so good, why not assemble PCs? If your lumber is so good, why not build houses? If your vaccine is so good, why not start a chain of pharmacies? Empirically there seems to be benefits of specialization and focus that outweigh the benefits of conglomeration.
Knowing what customers want is crucial, and people who buy our tokens often understand their customers better than we could hope to. The are also opportunity costs. For every bit of effort we expend chasing a new vertical, that’s a bit of effort and focus subtracted from our core competency.