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Google has long tried to take profit away from lead gen marketplaces. OpenAI is now going for that pool with ChatGPT. Its technology makes search much better by understanding intent, and it can transact on users' behalf, allowing the company to push further into the marketplace stack than Google and do everything a transactional marketplace can. Many marketplaces will come out of this transition just fine.
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Different teams can use the same model but get different results. The context is now the moat. Context is the structured knowledge that helps models understand specific situations. Good context results in better outputs, which can, in turn, improve context for future runs.
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