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Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta by throwawaygh on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:50PM (#29575020)
the crucial difference is that OpenAI doesn't have an iPhone, right?
Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta by schleck8 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:58AM (#29575426)
They have a huge computing platform and a brand name
Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta by jfoster on Thursday December 16, 2021 @06:31AM (#29577193)
Which can be substituted by any other computing platform that has the necessary function for your application. As long as one exists, you're good to go. (possibly none exist yet)

The brand name doesn't count for anything unless you, as an application developer, decide to assign some value to it.

Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta by throwawaygh on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:13PM (#29584718)
The compute platform is commodity. Even Accenture has a cloud.

The brand name holds little weight outside of developer communities. But developers are exactly the group that will happily shop around alternatives. The App Store had power because of consumer buy-in, not dev buy-in.

Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta by zitterbewegung on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:51AM (#29578679)
Huggingface has the same things but it has the feel of Github.