Yeah basically use GPT-4 for now to make something useful and make customers happy, then eventually switch out to lower-cost LLM's as open-source options become available.
A pattern I see across all of these plays is some kind of unfair advantage with distribution. Jasper, from what I know, was started by founders ran a content company and had a pre-existing set of customers. Looks like atleast one of the founders of Harvey knows the legal world and secured some pilots that way.
heh. That's a bit of a strange wording, but yes. Domain-specific knowledge and connections are obviously a big advantage. I know it's frustrating when you're looking at "but how do I make money from this?"
To any young students out there...perhaps the answer is to double-major in CS + $BIG_INDUSTRY at a top-10 school and get really high grades and work high-caliber, high-connection jobs in $BIG_INDUSTRY and then start a software company that leverages your experience and connections.