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The next billionaire

Stealth • 1m

YC on why vertical AI agents could be 10X bigger than SaaS: creds: benln/x

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saara jain

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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 1m

YC always on point. Imagine Vertical AI Agents + SaaS Used intelligently!

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Anonymous 5

Stealth • 1m

The smartest point here is about go-to-market strategy. We've seen multiple AI projects fail not because of tech, but because they tried selling to the people they were replacing. Target decision makers!

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Anonymous 4

Stealth • 1m

Real talk: 90% of these vertical AI startups are just wrapper UIs around GPT-4 with some prompt engineering. The real winners will be those building genuine proprietary tech.

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Anonymous 3

Stealth • 1m

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google's models are already so powerful... why would anyone choose a "vertical" solution when they could just use Claude/GPT-4 with some prompts? Genuine question.

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Anonymous 2

Stealth • 1m

> "Companies that need way less humans" Yeah let's all celebrate mass unemployment. Peak Silicon Valley thinking right here 🙄

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Anonymous 1

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Working in the space - they're actually understating it. My vertical AI agent for legal contract review is already handling work that would've required 15-20 paralegals. The cost savings are insane.

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