Ask HN: Why doesn't OpenAI start 100 companies itself?

A Hacker News discussion asks why frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic sell tokens as their main revenue source instead of launching companies that build products on their own models. The poster argues that with commoditization and falling prices, application-layer profits may exceed the utility layer, questioning whether selling tokens is the best strategy.

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