Investors claim OpenAI is 'uniquely' positioned to become the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars ahead of Microsoft and Apple:...

[Windows Central]

A new report claims more investors are joining OpenAI's latest round of funding, potentially propelling it to become the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars, potentially ahead of Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Apple.

Investors claim OpenAI is 'uniquely' positioned to become the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars ahead of Microsoft and Apple:... : Read more

 

[fjtorres5591]

Short memories.
So was Netscape before they got standards religion.
A better example of what lies ahead is Spyglass Mosaic.
Those that ignore the past... Yadda yadda

 

[FraJa]

Netscape disappeared by itself, it was originally a paid product, then free, without income...
Lots of people had Netscape even with IE installed... and once again Windows isn't an apple product.
You were free to install whatever browser you wanted... because, yes, there were others... the "Browser War" I was there to live it, wasn't a war at all...
It was the early days of the web... not the almost mainstream technology that it was 10 years later.
When Chrome spread like an adware (the toolbar was already the same) bundled with anything, but especially Flash or Acrobat... This is where memory is really short, and about the past, people should really take a look at the actual events of the past... The 90s! the sources are everywhere, no need to hire archeologists... You will see the factual history and the tale that is commonly remembered as the history today, is already a remastered version of the rewritten history. And not written by the winners... (like the saying says).

 

[fjtorres5591]

NETSCAPE dominated the first generation by staying ahead of the wannabe competitors by defining useful tags and getting web site developers to support them. This forced competitors to spend their time trying to duplicate the NETSCAPE flavor of HTML.
But when HTML 4.2 came out, Netscape stopped innovating and surrendered control of HTML to the standards body. And they compounded this mistake by waiting for the next standard to be finalized before starting to implement it. Microsoft didn't, they coded to the preliminary spec and thus when it was finalized they had a working product on day one.

Once Netscape lost control over the web site developers they were on the way out.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. It can be repeated. And if OpenAI isn't careful, it will be.

Contrast that with WABI, when SUN and companies tried to use standards bodies to hijack control of Windows16 API set. MS kept on evolving the Windows API set into Win32, Win64, etc unto this day. They stayed ahead of the slow moving standards committees and retained control.

The story is repeated over and over; TCP/IP vs GOSIP, WinNT vs UNIX, LINUX vs UNIX, TRUE TYPE vs TYPE1, KINDLE vs ePUB...

Tech moves fast and any player that doesn't move equally fast ends up roadkill.
Few first generation players last to the second, much less third evolution of the sector. And the lucky ones end up as niche players.

In all cases, the smart money bets on the field, not the pioneer.

And in AI, the one player cruising for a bruising is NVIDIA, for their pricing practices. They are not well-loved, even by those dependent on their wares. They need to stay far ahead of competitors because the moment somebody gets even close in raw performance they'll go the way of Type1. (A story all unto itself.)