Karmi: SDK Ecosystem Will Consolidate to a Few Dominant Winners
Eyal Karmi · Empowering Innovation: The Intersection of Corporate Venture Capital and AI-Driven Startups · May 14, 2025 · at 57:15
Eyal Karmi of Nakuda discusses the strategic value of offering developer SDKs in the emerging AI and agentic software ecosystem.
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“I don't think there's going to be 200 of these SDKs and will tend to diverge to a few and create a network effect.”
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