Brockman said startups that connect large language models to real-world applications are extremely valuable.<\/p>\n
Brockman<\/a>, who cofounded OpenAI in 2015, added that domains like healthcare<\/a> require founders to think about all the stakeholders and how they can insert AI models into the existing system.<\/p>\n “There is so much fruit that is not yet picked, so go ahead and ride the GPT river,” he said.<\/p>\n Brockman also advised founders against building “better wrappers.”<\/a> “AI wrapper” is a dismissive term used to refer to simple applications that are built on top of existing AI models and can be easily offered by LLM companies themselves.<\/p>\n “It’s really about understanding a domain and building up expertise and relationships and all of those things,” Brockman said.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Brockman’s comments are part of a Silicon Valley debate about how new AI founders can future-proof their startup ideas.<\/p>\n Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> said his company would “steamroll” any startup building “little things” on top of its model. He said that companies that underestimate the speed of AI model growth risk becoming part of the “OpenAI killed my startup meme.”<\/p>\n In a June podcast, Instagram cofounder and Anthropic’s chief product officer, Mike Krieger, offered some advice<\/a> for startups that want to avoid being made obsolete by LLM companies.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754989098_269_placeholder.png\")
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