An Assay of the Modern AI Tech Stack
Here's my second Assay - this time on the Modern AI Tech Stack!
Author’s Note: An Assay is my version of a VC investment thesis. Read the Prelude section of An Assay of the Creator Economy to learn more. Also, the final post was so long that it would not fit here in a single email via Substack. I didn’t want to ruin the viewing experience, so I had to publish it on Medium, which you can find below.
An Assay of the Modern AI Tech Stack
I want to give a big thank you to Max Rimpel, Derick En’Wezoh, Michael Bervell, Palak Goel, and Sam Udotong for reviewing earlier versions of this piece. A special shoutout to Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Nader Khalil, Kashish Gupta, Chris Lu (and also Sam once again!) for allowing me to cover your respective startups over the years.
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Previous Startup Spotlights:
Startup Spotlight #212: TruePlayers - TruePlayers takes the best experiences on PC/Console and builds mobile-first titles inspired by them.
Startup Spotlight #211: Regression Gaming - Regression Games, backed by NEA and a16z, is building the platform for useful and practical AI agents in games.
Startup Spotlight #210: Candidate.fyi - candidate.fyi is the missing candidate experience layer that integrates with 40+ ATSs. We believe every candidate deserves an excellent experience, hired or not.
Startup Spotlight #209: Founder's Cupid - Founder's Cupid is a growing, in-person community for 350+ student entrepreneurs between Michigan and Stanford’s campuses to support the top student founders.
Startup Spotlight #208: Rivet - Rivet is a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to generate actions and recommendations that make fan community management and revenue generation easy for artists and creators.
Startup Spotlight #207: Diddo - Diddo is building next-gen computer vision to empower a paradigm shift and open up new revenue streams for social commerce.