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gofreddygo • yesterday at 9:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

reframed question - if their shovels are so good why dont they dig gold and sell gold themselves.


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stingraycharles • yesterday at 9:44 PM

I thought NVidia was the one selling shovels here, not OpenAI.

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magarnicle • yesterday at 10:25 PM

Gold is much more fungible than a business. 100 different businesses are much more unique than 100 different gold nuggets.

The counter-argument is that the models might make business ideas just as fungible as anything else.