Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus...
by ASalazarMX on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:56PM
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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.
Re:Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI jus...
by stogot on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:33AM
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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?
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.