PremiumChris KeallTechnology Editor/Senior Business Writer·NZ Herald·21 Jun, 2026 05:00 PM9 mins to read‌The arrival of OpenAI's ChatGPT upended the market for existing makers of AI-based apps. Image / Getty Creative

The roller-coaster fortunes of an Auckland AI start-up offer lessons on how to deal with the commoditisation of the market with the arrival of ChatGPT. Shareholders of its original incarnation are in a war of words, even as a successor company enjoys global success. MBIE acknowledges for the first time