Immerman: Consolidation will happen again in general-purpose search
Alex Immerman · The 2025 AI Search Race · Dec 9, 2024 · at 8:09
Alex Immerman is a Partner at a16z. He discusses how distribution power and network effects will inevitably drive consolidation in conversational AI search.
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“I think consolidation should be expected in general purpose search because of distribution, because of network effects.”
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