And that's why the teams that really want to unlock AI will understand that the core problem is really systems integration and ETL; the AI needs to be aware of the entire corpus of relevant information through some mechanism (tool use, search, RAG, graph RAG, etc.) and the startups that win are the ones that are going to do that well.
You can't solve this problem with more compute nor better models.
I've said it elsewhere in this discussion, but the LLM is just a magical oven that's still reliant on good ingredients being prepped and put into the oven before hitting the "bake" button if you want amazing dishes to pop out. If you just want Stouffer's Mac & Cheese, it's already good enough for that.
It doesn't.
And that's why the teams that really want to unlock AI will understand that the core problem is really systems integration and ETL; the AI needs to be aware of the entire corpus of relevant information through some mechanism (tool use, search, RAG, graph RAG, etc.) and the startups that win are the ones that are going to do that well.
You can't solve this problem with more compute nor better models.
I've said it elsewhere in this discussion, but the LLM is just a magical oven that's still reliant on good ingredients being prepped and put into the oven before hitting the "bake" button if you want amazing dishes to pop out. If you just want Stouffer's Mac & Cheese, it's already good enough for that.