On May 25, 2023, I wrote “The evolving ChatGPT’s OpenAI playbook: build a marketplace of AI companies, mimicking Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Yes, OpenAI is positioning itself as a platform upon which future mini-AI systems will run on. And it is doing the necessary: providing funding to ensure those entities congregate around it”.
I wrote that when I saw the type of companies which OpenAI was backing. It was evident that it was positioning ChatGPT to become a mother AI system in which entrepreneurs and creators could build daughter AI systems within a marketplace to capture value.
Today, my postulation has been confirmed: “Artificial Intelligence company and creator of AI Chatbot ChatGPT, OpenAI, is reportedly working to launch an App store for AI Solutions. This was disclosed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a London Developers’ meeting last month. According to reports, the AI app store, which is still in the early stages of development, would allow developers to sell their AI Models built on top of OpenAI’s technology.”
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With that transition, generative AI will begin a massive phase of penetration and diffusion into sectors and markets. In other words, you just go to the AI app store and download whatever you want to download, as the ecosystem will enable a convergence where makers could reach users and vice versa at scale.
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AI app store without a proprietary OS or hardware? It means that it will still pay taxes to both Apple and Google, else the former will give it the sort of treatment it gave to Meta (Facebook), if it refuses to play ball…
Apple is more strategic in this battle, because of its hold in both high end smartphone and PC markets, it remains to be seen how the AI app store will navigate that.
Interesting times ahead.