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The Hidden Cost of AI Vendor Lock-In for Series A Startups
Series A founders are betting their entire stack on proprietary AI models, only to find themselves trapped by vendor lock-in and exorbitant licensing fees. We examine the recent valuation of Jev, a non-text AI model company valued at $7.5 billion just weeks after launch, as a cautionary tale. With battery costs now dropping below natural gas turbines for data centers, the economics of compute are shifting rapidly. But when your core IP is hosted exclusively on one provider’s infrastructure, you lose negotiating power. Lucas and Luna break down how to structure AI partnerships to preserve…
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