The computer technology industry can get wickedly competitive and there are times when the odd snide remark is made in public. But the newest wave of the artificial intelligence crowd seems to be going at it with a vengeance.

Normally, it's the sort of thing for other industries to ignore, but there's a power play going on for market dominance. And that's exactly what users, including those in CRE, need to see for what it is when deciding where to go with new technology.

For example, a few months ago Sam Altman of OpenAI, makers of Chat GPT, talked about steamrolling other startups basing products on large language model, or LLM, software. James Wang, general partner at early-stage venture capital firm Creative Ventures, wrote that almost all AI startups going forward are "doomed." At least the ones built as wrappers around the tech of others.

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