Delangue: AI Startups Cost More to Build Than Traditional Software Startups
Clément Delangue · Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 12, 2023 · at 31:05
Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, compares the cost structure and capital needs of AI startups against traditional software companies.
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“It does, a little bit. A bit similarly, in my opinion, to how, you know, like you would build like an internet company or like a software company, 20 years ago. Because compute is kind of like more expensive for AI than it is for traditional software. Because the team members that you need to hire, as we mentioned, are more expensive than if you need regular software engineers. So it does cost more money to build an AI first startup than a regular conflict software startup.”
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