From Daily ChatGPT to Agents: Why OpenAI Was 'The Accidental Consumer AI Company'
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-30
Responding to Ben Thompson's framing of OpenAI as "the accidental consumer AI company," a commenter notes that reading PDFs and spreadsheets with AI is now table stakes—Meta's Muse, the Gemini app, or Google Search can all do it, where only ChatGPT could before.
He traces the shift in usage patterns: from opening ChatGPT several times a day, to coding harnesses, to AI agents. In another timeline, OpenAI could have spun off its consumer business for a separate IPO or a multibillion-dollar acquisition, but the landscape has settled differently, with Meta and Google now positioned to own consumer AI.
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