Amjad Masad (@amasad) says AI model suppliers may become their customers’ competitors. Replit is building a way around that risk. “There's like a risk that when you work closely with the foundation model companies is that they're going to move into your business.” “It's harder to partner with them because their ambition is such that they want to be, they want to subsume a big part of the economy.” “Replit is becoming more of an independence layer inside enterprises where we create a layer of indirection between you and the models and we get you the best token at the cheapest price.” “But also we also create an abstraction layer on top of the cloud as well.” - Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, in an a16z interview published October 3.