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20VC: Why Model Providers Will Kill Many Startups Moving into the Application Layer | Why Deepseek is not a Threat to OpenAI & Why OpenAI Beats Anthropic | Apps vs Models vs Infrastructure: Where is Value in AI with Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake CEO
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO @ Snowflake, the $60BN public company with $3.5BN in revenue growing 30% per year. Sridhar joined Snowflake following his company, Neeva, being acquired by them for $150M. Prior to founding Neeva, Ramaswamy spent 15 years at Google where he had an integral part in the growth of AdWords and Google's advertising business from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
1. OpenAI vs Deepseek vs Anthropic:
Why will OpenAI beat Deepseek? What does no one see with Deepseek that they should see?
Why has OpenAI beaten Anthropic? What elements turn a…
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