Yes, they have the name "ChatGPT". For non-technical people this appears to be the most important thing.

Is it a household name? Anecdotally, only two of my five millennial/gen-z siblings use an AI app at all, and one of them calls her's "Gary" instead of ChatGPT. I'd be interested in seeing some actual data showing how much ChatGPT is an actual household name versus one that us technical people assume is a household name due to its ubiquity in our space.

> Is it a household name?

I think it is, yes.

It was interviewed under that name on one of the UK's main news broadcasts almost immediately after it came out. Few hundred million users. Anecdotes about teachers whose students use it to cheat.

But who knows. I was surprising people about the existence of Wikipedia as late as 2004, and Google Translate's augmented reality mode some time around the start of the pandemic.

Does AWS have a moat on cloud computing?

Yes, it would take 10s of billions of dollars to recreate the infrastructure as far as servers and AWS has its own pipelines running under the oceans.

Then you have to recreate all of the services on top of the AWS.

Then you have to deal with regulations and certifications.

Then you have to convince decision makers to go against their own interests. “No one ever got fired for Amazon”.

Then you have to convince corporations to spend money to migrate.

Yes that requires huge infrastructure investments. Creating an LLM requires huge investments. Running an LLM requires medium to big investments but using one remotely require very little investment.