Resources and focus There are lots of things you can do, but it’s not clear you should.
OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources. And in addition to building a chat-based AI, they chose to launch pretty good image generation, a basketball, a meme video generator (since cancelled), an upcoming speaker that actually moves around your house, and a myriad of other tools, with new ones coming all the time. A short list includes: Operator, Deep Research, Scheduled Tasks, Projects, Canvas, Connectors, famous voices and Record Mode.
At the same time, Anthropic follows a slower (sort of boring) path.
It’s precisely the same choices every solo freelancer and small business faces, except with more zeroes.
At its peak, Yahoo had nearly 200 links on its home page. They were defeated by Google, which had two.
Three things:
- More resources could mean you need more focus, not less.
- Innovation is critical, and focus shouldn’t be used as an excuse to hide.
- No is a complete sentence.