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How do you avoid being locked into one AI vendor as the market keeps shifting?

CTO · B2B services company·Asked Mar 26, 2026·119 views

We're building our product roadmap around AI features and we're effectively betting on OpenAI's API staying competitive and available. Every few months there's a new model that outperforms the one we're using, new pricing, and terms of service changes. How do companies architect their AI dependencies to avoid being locked into a vendor whose costs, capabilities, or policies might change in ways that hurt us?

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