Eh, I think it's actually something subtly different. I think OpenAI does believe that a moat exists and actually that they're on the losing end of it. They seem to have realized that Google is going to (arguably already has) eaten their lunch because of their privileged internet content scraper. Google can/has amassed more data than OpenAI could ever hope to because they provide reciprocal value to the sites they index, so much value that Googlebot gets let through captchas and paywalls. I think this is OpenAI trying to get some momentum that convinces site owners to not just up and block them.
Because the first thing you have to do to surface your products on ChatGPT is opt your site into the scraper.
I have a hard time believing that the differentiating factor between the top models is data volume. Sure, Google has all of the internet mirrored internally, but the vendor models are seeing unfathomably large collections. Clever engineering is doing more to getting better performance. I doubt DeepSeek had better English datasets than OpenAI or Google.
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Eh, I think it's actually something subtly different. I think OpenAI does believe that a moat exists and actually that they're on the losing end of it. They seem to have realized that Google is going to (arguably already has) eaten their lunch because of their privileged internet content scraper. Google can/has amassed more data than OpenAI could ever hope to because they provide reciprocal value to the sites they index, so much value that Googlebot gets let through captchas and paywalls. I think this is OpenAI trying to get some momentum that convinces site owners to not just up and block them.
Because the first thing you have to do to surface your products on ChatGPT is opt your site into the scraper.
I have a hard time believing that the differentiating factor between the top models is data volume. Sure, Google has all of the internet mirrored internally, but the vendor models are seeing unfathomably large collections. Clever engineering is doing more to getting better performance. I doubt DeepSeek had better English datasets than OpenAI or Google.