Not the Only Game in Town
ChatGPT and OpenAI are the guys everyone talks about…until now. There are also other players out there.
Anthropic introduced Claude, which was developed by former OpenAI folks to be a more safety and accuracy focused assistant. Meta has MetaAI, X provides Grok, Google provides Gemini and there are still more. Everyone is racing towards an optimal version to grab marketshare.
But it’s not just for a chatbot. No, no, no! You are thinking small now. They are all trying to position themselves as the leader in the best AI Ecosystem for you and your business. I mention this within the framework of the business because that is the true endgame. Providers of the AI Ecosystem are interested in your company’s adoption, like a major sports stadium sells skyboxes: they want the corporate big guys.
What they want is to make those long documents you get summarized in a few seconds, It already helps you when you are writing a reply to an email by suggesting what you are writing, much like it is doing for me right now as I write this. Next it will want to reply to your requests for things like “What was my profit margin for the last quarter and which items are the loss leaders?” You won’t be an AI Expert…sorry to all those pop-up ad guys on the internet…AI is being tuned for you to just jump in and go. Employees will feel like they have a helpful assistant built into every application they use.
That leaves us, the average Joe, with the upper deck seats at a higher cost than I would like, right? Not exactly. If you can crank out that report for the boss faster, then you will get to go home on time. But there is another hook to it. Remember how people came to work and said, “My home internet is faster than this!” or things of that nature? Well, the big AI providers are hoping you will start using AI at home or on your own and become the AI evangelist for your company with their ecosystem. If companies respond slowly, maybe the folks in the ivory towers will get nervous and want the ecosystem when they see how smart Sally in the data entry department seems.
So there you have it. I hope this has dispelled some of the mystery concerning this.
