It is because OpenAI is a competitor for Google search, not because OAI is also a monopoly. YC has a conflict of interest because of their relation to OpenAI(YC research) and Sam Altman directly.

YC doesn’t after all often amicus briefs in court, the relationship was a definitely a factor in doing so. Stating that relationship clearly and disclosing financial upside they may get in the soon to be for profit conversion is relevant to this case.

The google decision could have implications for OpenAI’s business and therefore their enterprise value .

I'd be surprised if DuckDuckGo had more LLM users than ChatGPT has search users. Even Perplexity probably doesn't come close.

Apple Intelligence is another example integrating (intending to anyway) a variety of services you can choose between. Cursor as well. It actually feels like the ability to easily switch between rival models is a pretty standard feature of 3rd party services. And right now it feels like nobody is trying to stop this!

We will see what happens with the windsurf acquisition. This is one of the best things with the community though. Both the OSS solutions and wrappers.