Idle 2023 acquisitions predictions:

Midjourney acq by Instagram or Discord

Browser Company acq by OpenAI

Bigscreen VR by Microsoft or Google

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OpenAI would greatly benefit from being one level up in the stack.

An even wilder moonshot would be building a new phone OS

The risk is the upstream part of the stack:

The risk is the upstream part of the stack:

https://warpcast.com/dwr/0xd4cc25

Interesting. OpenAI could indeed become consumer company as defensibility of their tech is not clear just yet.
However, given their technological head start, I'd bet they would focus on long-term partnerships before competition catches up.
I'd love to see it happening though. OpenAI+Arc would be a blast!

Microsoft building a new phone with OpenAI tech and **much better** UX & UI than their previous phones.. I would buy that.

It would be fascinating since they could rebuild the whole phone OS UX with AI as a mental point of origin🚀

Here's an interesting take from Ben about OpenAI as consumer tech company.

https://stratechery.com/2023/the-accidental-consumer-tech-company-chatgpt-meta-and-product-market-fit-aggregation-and-apis/

ethOS 5.0 - OpenAI integrated in every interaction