{"id":1822,"date":"2026-04-12T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/12\/most-ai-companies-are-just-wrapper-startups-that-will-be-dead-when-openai-releases-th\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:49:12","slug":"most-ai-companies-are-just-wrapper-startups-that-will-be-dead-when-openai-releases-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/12\/most-ai-companies-are-just-wrapper-startups-that-will-be-dead-when-openai-releases-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Most &#8220;AI companies&#8221; are just wrapper startups that will be dead when OpenAI releases th&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most &quot;AI companies&quot; are just wrapper startups that will be dead when OpenAI releases their next API update. Building a moat on someone else&#039;s foundation is not a business strategy.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2043285763052442075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most &quot;AI companies&quot; are just wrapper startups that will be dead when OpenAI releases their next API update. Building a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}