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Tough day to be an AI Excel add-in startup

• jonathanstrange 1y ago
  That seems to be true for any startup that offers a wrapper to existing AIs rather than an AI on their own. The lucky ones might be bought but many if not most of them will perish trying to compete with companies that actually create AI models and companies large enough to integrate their own wrappers.
  • warthog 1y ago
    Actually just wrote about this: https://aimode.substack.com/p/openai-is-below-above-and-around?r=1yhy9o https://aimode.substack.com/p/openai-is-below-above-and-arou... not sure if it binary like that but as startups we will probably collect the scraps leftover indeed instead
• 8note 1y ago
  its a great time for your ai excel add-in to start getting acquired by a claude competitor though
  • NotMichaelBay 1y ago
    Not OpenAI, though, because they already gave $14M to an AI Excel add-in startup (Endex)
• mitjam 1y ago
  Ask Rosie is actually shutting down right now: https://www.askrosie.ai/ https://www.askrosie.ai/ I would love to learn more about their challenges as I have been working on an Excel AI add-in for quite some time and have followed Ask Rosie from almost their start. That they now gone through the whole cycle worries me I‘m too slow as a solo building on the side in these fast paced times.