>and if only a few people end up controlling AGIs, ASIs, I want to be one of them.

Please don't start a company. We don't need anyone trying to control AGI to be at the top.

If you

> want to build an app around the newest AI models available at that time

Then you won't be one of

>people end up controlling AGIs, ASIs

You will just be using it.

(It's like saying you want to build a business in/on/with Facebook so you end up controlling Facebook. It doesn't work like that)

You want to control it? Then build the AI you want to control from the ground up.

>I finish my software dev degree in may, and after a year or so of working...

Start right now, or it won't happen. Its never the right time. Nothing is stopping you now (spoken as an old bastard who spent his best years making someone else money).

You’re either early or you’re late :)

Imo we don't need more people trying to get rich using AI. It just increases existential threat.

AI development and alignment research is good though.

10 years too late

Oh my sweet summer child... I miss those days

Why do you think it would cost 30k? Mostly for marketing? Research? App development?

Yeah why not, an example would be using A.I with semantic search. So much easier than writing an “actual” search engine yourself.

Just be aware that your business should not just be centred around the model, because if your business == model then what kind of a MOAT do you have really.

Any kid can use an A.I to randomly hallucinate a fix to an issue, but it’s how you utilise the model and present it in a unique way that solves the problem consistently with a good user experience that makes all the difference.

solve a problem for someone who can pay for the solution

being the owner of an ai company is not solving a problem, and it’s not an actionable goal

I'm noticing competitve edge doesn't last as long as it used to and it's hard to predict how long a business model will be relevant e.g.

5 years ago, startups were offering customised chatbots, now ChatGPT style variants will replace those

NovelAI was apparently the best at anime image generation and its model got leaked and community trained models reduced the need for that kind of service.

elevenlabs has the best voice generator, if an open source model became available at similar quality, why would most people pay elevenlabs?

It seems a business model based purely on tech. advantage is risky because of security risks and a motivated open source community. e.g if someone leaks your model, that's a huge amount of investment and competitive edge lost overnight.

I think people would pay for convenience, as running these models is challenging for lay people e.g. midjourney

If you have the technical skills and the funding to be competitive, then you are 10 years behind the grass roots companies.