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How will matrix multiplication kill my company?

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Building in the AI space has changed how we think about defensibility. The standard question has always been "Is someone else going to build what I'm building, and how much defense do I have against that competition?". The question in AI now has changed to "Will I have a company after the next DevDay? Will new models simply eat my use-case? What about GPT-7.5?" Even without them, some general feelings cloud our current thinking across the board - as personal customers of AI, builders and founders, customers, or investors. We've all just had our personal worldviews of tech completely shaken with the rise of LLMs. We've watched entire areas of research and development - previously open problems - evaporate, in NLP, vision, and other areas - as one particular type of AI has proved to be able to do them all, setting a new floor for development - and invalidating prior work. Why spend time and money solving a specific problem, if there will soon exist matrices that can be multiplied togethe

How will matrix multiplication kill my company? Hrishi Olickel How will matrix multiplication kill my company? An opinionated exploration of defensibility with modern AI Building in the AI space has changed how we think about defensibility. The standard question has always been "Is someone else going to build what I'm building, and how much defense do I have against that competition?" . The question in AI now has changed to "Will I have a company after the next DevDay? Will new models simply eat my use-case? What about GPT-7.5?" Even without them, some general feelings cloud our current thinki

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