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Srinivas: No enterprise AI tools currently have customer lock-in

Aravind Srinivas · Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 5, 2024 · at 43:26

Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, discusses enterprise AI adoption and competition with Harry Stebbings.

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“AI is still so early today that nobody's locked in and loyal to any particular enterprise tool in AI and none of them even have a lock in effect.”

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