I'm wondering where we are heading in the consumer business space. The big ai providers can basically kill any small or medium business and startup in a few days by integrating the product into their offering. They have all data to look at trends and make decisions. Investors are shying away to invest in ai startups if they are not trying to be infrastructure or ai marketplace platforms. So many amazing things could be possible with ai but the big ai providers are actively hindering innovation and have way too much power. I'm not a big fan if regulations but in this case we need to break up these companies as they are getting too powerful.
Btw most people don't know but Anthropic did something similiar months ago but their product heads messed up the launch by keeping it locked up only for american edu institutions. Openai copies almost everything Anthropic does and vice versa (see claude code / codex ).