Neo Labs
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O'Driscoll: Public foundation model companies will acquire neo-labs for TAM expansion
“Some of them might, will be great investments, because I do think the foundation model companies, once the public will be acquirers of some of this stuff for time expansion, but they won't all be great investments.”
Lemkin: Funding will end for many AI neolabs
“It is it is a reminder that the music will end for a lot of the neolabs.”
Reyes: 80% to 90% of AI neo-labs will die within 18 months
“I think it could be 80 to 90% of Neolabs die in the next 18 months. And die is going to be a funny word to use because it'll probably be for a lot of them incredible outcomes. So I don't know if it's necessarily doom and gloom as much as it's these businesses …”
Investing in AI Labs Resembles Backing Quora Before Facebook Emerged
“I think right now, if you're going to invest in the new Neolab, you're basically investing, you know, in the Quora, in the stumble upon when Facebook X came about.”
Atallah: 50% of AI Neolabs Will Die or Consolidate Within Three Years
“Disagree. 70 seems very high. Of Neolabs. There aren't that many Neolabs. If, like, getting acquired by one of the model labs counts as die, I do think there'll probably be some, like, potential consolidation. If you include the consolidation, I would put, I'd…”
Angelopoulos: Two-thirds of 75 AI neo-labs will fail or be acqui-hired
“There's at least 75 Neolabs. And For sure, like two thirds of those are going to be worth nothing or like they're going to be bought out for parts, right? That's going to be like an aqua hire.”
Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x
“And the thing that you really need to believe is that if the valuation is ten billion today, that you're going to generate the revenue, let's say it's a 30 X revenue multiple or 25 X revenue multiple to become a hundred billion dollar business. And so what tha…”
Park: AI Labs Without Clear Impact Visions Risk Failing as Companies
“I do think Neo Labs, without a clear vision for how they're going to impact the world, I do genuinely think there is some risk that they will turn out to be interesting research project, but not a viable company.”
Menlo Ventures has invested in approximately seven AI labs
“We have very specific strategy around Neo labs too. We're in about seven of them.”
Market will not sustain 60 independent AI model companies
“There's no way in hell that, you know, we're going to have 60 independent model companies in addition to all the open source and everything.”
O'Driscoll: Small seed rounds are pointless for capital-heavy AI neolabs
“If it's going to take you three hundred million to get something done, there's no point raising 20 at 20 pre. You're just not going to get there.”