I wonder, what is an AI startup in this context? If AI is the product your selling, yep, your are in trouble! But if AI is a capability you use in your product, you might be ok.

If the AI is using OpenAI, they're at risk the pivot. When GPT4 launched with plug-ins—a bunch of startups were deprecated or forced to pivot because their at the hands of OpenAI. The real winners are going to be low cost tokenization in input/output and low cost built

Most AI startups are going to fail. Especially if they're not proactively making their own LLM outside of the beast of OpenAI. The winner will be the most cost-efficient build of an LLM and affordable input/output token cost.

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