OpenAI shipped a service with no pricing page, staffed by its own engineers and a hand-picked list of integrators. Anthropic built almost the same thing through a different door. The question isn't whether the labs are going to compete with consulting firms anymore. It's which of those firms survive it.

GPT-Live finally listens like a person; too bad it still decides like a company. The voice really did get better, but the router that splits the work between a cheap model and an expensive one leaves developers with zero say in it.