Model providers will be fungible. Applications will capture all the complicated interaction patterns, domain expertise, and distribution.
Apps can route between cheapest/most effective model. And the Chinese and upstart labs will continue dumping open source on the market. To get distribution, to salt the earth, commodify the compliment, etc.
When will an LLM be able to author a directory of GLB files organized into a game, precisely positioned within a world, with a set of user-tweaked PBR textures? Never. And even if it could, could you fathom the pain? The app layer will do that.
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The value is in the application, not the model.
Model providers will be fungible. Applications will capture all the complicated interaction patterns, domain expertise, and distribution.
Apps can route between cheapest/most effective model. And the Chinese and upstart labs will continue dumping open source on the market. To get distribution, to salt the earth, commodify the compliment, etc.
When will an LLM be able to author a directory of GLB files organized into a game, precisely positioned within a world, with a set of user-tweaked PBR textures? Never. And even if it could, could you fathom the pain? The app layer will do that.
2025 is the year of the "App Layer" in AI.