Hello! This is?Before Growth—my weekly newsletter about startups and?their builders before the?product–market fit.
In the product world, features under development are often dubbed WIP: Work–in–Progress. In that spirit, welcome to Week-in-Progress, your quick rundown of research, analysis, and?data on?the?top early–stage companies and projects, published every Wednesday. So, without further delay, let’s dive into today’s WIP!
- Metadata–based personalization is evolving; moving from basic likes to AI algorithms like TikTok’s to reasoning-based systems built on large language models. Here’s my weekly article about the topic.
- A trend in SaaS shows a decline in new business for early–stage startups. Revenue generation is shifting toward expansions, upselling, and cross-selling within existing customer bases.
- Microsoft pledges to protect users of its AI products from copyright infringement lawsuits, contributing to the debate over AI and intellectual property.
- ChatGPT’s traffic has declined for the third consecutive month, suggesting that growth in the AI sector is reaching a local plateau.
- An emerging standard playbook for AI startups focuses on replicating existing workflows and enhancing them with AI.
- Edge AI, deploying AI on local devices, is gaining momentum. Local models may address privacy concerns and enhance functionality.
- Apple is reportedly developing an advanced language model that could outperform ChatGPT; it remains to be seen how this will be deployed.
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