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From the Editor: The Challenges of Scaling AI Startups

In recent years, the world of software was shaped by two fundamental movements: cloud computing and software as a service(SaaS). Both paradigms became the fundamental mechanisms to deliver software solutions and established new patterns for scaling companies. While before, software startups needed meaningful human and computing resources to scale, the cloud and SaaS movements removed that friction ushering a new era of innovation in company building. The natural assumption is that artificial intelligence(AI) will follow similar patterns but is that the case?

Scaling AI startups is very different than previous businesses and far from being an easy endeavor. High computing costs, professional services requirements and a constant competition from the largest tech companies in the world are some of the challenges that should be considered when evaluating building or working with AI startups. A few days ago, the famous venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz published a brilliant essay outlining some of the challenges of scaling AI startups…