Sooner or later someone is going to find "secret sauce" that provides a step-up in capability, and it will be closely guarded by whoever finds it.
As big players look to start monetizing, they are going to desperately be searching for moats.
As big players look to start monetizing, they are going to desperately be searching for moats.
Right now, in my opinion, OpenAI has actually a useful deep research feature which I've found nobody else matches. But there is no moat to be seen there.
I might be mistaken, but originally the reasoning was fully hidden? Or maybe it was just far more aggressively purged. I agree that today the reasoning output seems higher quality then originally.
It's called the "first step fallacy", and AI hype believers continue to fall for it.