VC: Startups 'killed' by OpenAI can relax — its new features will die like Custom GPTs
jdjohnson · x · 2026-09-30
Investor jdjohnson argues that startups 'killed' by OpenAI's latest feature drop actually got good news: OpenAI is back to a lack of focus, and most of these features will never be touched again, dying the slow, painful death of Custom GPTs and Pulse.
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