We studied how consumer-based AI startups are launching their products; we identified three paths:
-Partner with a company with a large user base. OpenAI’s ChatGPT partnered with Microsoft which has millions of users. Microsoft is providing the feedstock (yes, the data) to advance ChatGPT at scale.
-Spend a huge amount of money via promos and advertisements to get data which will improve your AI models as quickly as possible. This is the Temu path; Temu uses AI to power shopping in its ecosystem. Temu is spending massively on adverts.
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-Bake AI into existing in-house data. If you are lucky, and you have the data as Google does, you can begin once the code is ready.
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