Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by mehdizare on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:27AM (#50209657)

I don't think it's similar, McKinsey make money by offering non-sense presentation and helping managers justify their decisions

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by gffrd on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:54AM (#50210110)

Actually, that sounds quite similar.

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by epsteingpt on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:17AM (#50210496)

Came for this comment

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by naijaboiler on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:05AM (#50210289)

yup that what claude does too

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by wildzzz on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:51PM (#50212825)

True but at least Claude does the work for me too. It's going to build me whatever I want despite how correct of a choice it is.

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by LadyCailin on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:04AM (#50210277)

I think that’s the underlying criticism. If the enterprise is risky, speculative, or just straight up bullshit, then selling the shovels is the smartest move.

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by kregasaurusrex on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:33AM (#50210741)

They would most certainly save money by building said shovels out of paperclips!

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by ASalazarMX on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:56PM (#50216981)

And more important, AI companies are selling shovels, not gold.

Others will buy the shovels to dig for gold, most will fail, but the shovels are already sold, and part of the profit will be used to make more shovels until the gold fever settles or dies.

They would never shove the gold machine at you at every opportunity if it really created gold.

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Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus... by stogot on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:33AM (#50242569)

GCP, AWS, Oracle, Azure, and the neoclouds are selling shovels to the AI co. AI companies are selling something else maybe hourly access to their mine?

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