OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157B

Re:OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157B by layer8 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:25AM (#41731103)

Google’s moat is their search index and infrastructure (which is significantly larger-scale than an LLM), and the fact that non-Google/Microsoft web crawlers are being blocked by most websites.

Windows’ moat is enterprise integration, and the sheer amount of software targeting it (despite appearances, the whole world doest’t run on the web), including hardware drivers (which, among other things, makes it the gaming platform that it is).

OpenAI could build a moat on integrations, as I mentioned.

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Re:OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157B by mattmaroon on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:53AM (#41766033)

Eh, Bing’s index and infrastructure are perfectly adequate and they’ve still got a single digit market share. One might argue other people dont have them (others once did) because Google’s brand moat drowned the competition and makes nobody else bother.

OpenAI could build a moat in a lot of different ways including ones that haven’t been thought of yet.

They’ll find several I am sure.

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