[BigJono]

How many of these startups are building new models, datasets and algorithms? Or are they all just prefixing a few lines to a prompt before passing it on to a 3rd party API?

If these companies actually had something worth celebrating, would they really be out of the game this early? Most dead AI companies right now are muppets that built the quickest, shittiest thing they could to try and be the first in the door in a hype cycle.

[siva7]

There are many of these startups you described and there are also many companies with years of work joining the graveyard. It’s not black and white.