{
  "id": 16211788,
  "title": "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/ask-hn-if-the-models-are-so-good-why-doesnt-openai-just-start-100",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-22T21:03:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News Best",
    "slug": "hacker-news-best",
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200997"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker? Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their own products? Is selling tokens really the best strategy? Especially with commodification and prices declining wouldn't…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI says it built an \"offline world\" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps (OpenAI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/openai-says-it-built-an-offline-world-from-cached-web-content-to",
        "published": "2026-10-24T00:30:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}