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Jean-Denis Greze, founder of @TownAI, on the question every AI app founder gets asked: what stops the big labs from crushing you? "It is risky always to be competing with your suppliers, right? We're competing against our suppliers. So you gotta ask yourself, is that naturally the right state of the world?" "Someone at OpenAI, at Anthropic, at Google could wake up and decide to do that. So the better answer actually is to think about our customers and what they want." "It is our job to determine from all the AI capabilities, frontier model, open weight, what is the right thing for you as a business. And I think you can save money there, but also you can de-risk ever having made the wrong partner." "There are companies that picked OpenAI like two years ago, and then Anthropic was better at coding for a 12-month period. And those companies had to use both because they realized to be competitive, they needed Claude." "If you're a smart business, you really think about the neutrality of who's providing intelligence for you and who's routing." @jgreze @arampell