Cohen: OpenAI killed document wrapper startups by launching native PDF chat
Oshree Cohen · He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version · Jan 9, 2024 · at 15:37
Fractional CTO Oshree Cohen discusses with host Sean Weisbrot how platform providers easily displace thin wrapper startups built solely on their APIs.
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“I mean, open AI, for example, right now, now allows you to upload a PDF file, right? Those are the upload PDF and talk to it. How many startups did that just kill? Startups and businesses, right? There are so many that came up and said, Ooh, we're going to parse the PDF and yeah, and we're going to let you chat with your PDF. Great. Fantastic. Small, tiny little problem, right? They're using the open AI API and open AI. I saw that and be like, we can do that. That's it.”
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