[HN Gopher] AI-native startup ain't the same as a typical SaaS c...
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       AI-native startup ain't the same as a typical SaaS company
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-05-02 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ShamelessC wrote:
       | Sad that so many investors/founders couldn't figure this out
       | themselves.
        
       | hazyc wrote:
       | Stark reminder that Boston VCs are about 20 years behind Bay Area
       | VCs. Can't believe this was even worthy of a techcrunch article.
        
       | joenot443 wrote:
       | > Seseri made it clear that just because you connect to some AI
       | APIs, it doesn't make you an AI company. "And by AI-native I
       | don't mean you're slapping a shiny wrapper with some call to
       | OpenAI or Anthropic with a user interface that's human-like and
       | you're an AI company,"
       | 
       | I personally agree with this perspective, but I think it runs
       | contrary to how many companies new LLM-API-powered companies are
       | choosing to present themselves. More than once I've seen
       | marketing talking about "advanced machine-learning algorithms",
       | when it's very clear by the single person engineering team that
       | they're really just hitting an endpoint.
       | 
       | Not to say these aren't real products or real companies! But
       | there's certainly a distinction between a startup powered by
       | OpenAI and one powered by its own novel model.
        
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