The AI Models That Top Startups Are Suddenly Choosing Over ChatGPT

OpenAI is no longer the favorite model provider among startups, according to one promising cohort.

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

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Famed San Francisco-based startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator says that one AI model provider has overtaken OpenAI in popularity among the accelerator’s latest batch of startups, eliminating the ChatGPT-maker’s previous market dominance. 

On a December 22 episode of official Y Combinator podcast Lightcone, YC general partner Diana Hu said that “shockingly,”