Will OpenAI's Agent Tools Kill Startups?

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I think it's a very cool product. I think it shows what's possible, but I don't think it kills the agent startups. If anything, it's going to boost them, right? The agent startups have sort of a niche where they sit between providers. OpenAI just serves OpenAI models. You can email other models in their platform, but when you're actually deploying with Agent Kit, from what it seems like, you can just use OpenAI models. I've been building agents and I know many other people have been building agents for for years now. Uh I guess decades in AI time and very few people that have built agents at a high level are using just open AI models or just anthropic models or just Google models. It's usually a mix using the best model for what it needs to be used for for a specific thing. Right? You don't want to use open AI for everything because open models aren't the strongest in everything, right? There's sort of like difference in cost, difference in capabilities, difference in just their strong suits. So, I think some companies will use this because they don't really care about the difference. You know, they don't need the frontier performance for everything. But when you're talking about this killing all these agent startups, I I don't think so. I think if anything, it's going to boost them because you need to have startups that allow you to use, you know, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. >> But you don't think OpenAI will open things up at all later on to allow people to use other models at all? >> I don't see the incentive uh which makes me think it's not going to happen. And there hasn't been much uh that we've seen from them that would indicate that that would be the case. Maybe I'm wrong, right?