Because people pay for convenience, and may not be technical enough to stay up to date on the latest and best AI company for their use case. Presumably your specialized app would switch to better AI instances for that use case as they come along in which case they're paying for your curation as well.
Maybe. It just seems to me that every single angle of AI has this same moat issue.
It's like the generation ship problem. Send a ship to the stars today, and before it gets there technology might advance such that the second ship we send gets there before the first.
How do you justify the capital necessary to stand out in an AI driven marketplace when the next models could make your business obsolete at any time?