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Startups are racing against LLMs

As LLMs become more powerful, capable, and generalizable, startups that build on top of them need to convince customers to stay

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Dave Friedman
Jan 18, 2025
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Introduction

Over the past few years, LLMs such as OpenAI’s GPT series, or Anthropic’s Claude, have transformed the technology landscape. These foundational models boast capabilities that range from natural-language understanding and content generation to complex reasoning and coding. The result has been a surge of entrepreneurial activity: startups raci…

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