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The Economist says venture capital is pouring billions into new AI firms founded by prominent figures who have left established model-makers, while many of those start-ups have little to show for the money so far.

That is a useful counterweight to the funding headlines: a founder’s name and a large raise are not the same thing as a working product or proven progress. The article’s summary does not name the firms or give individual funding figures, so this is a broad assessment, not a company-by-company scorecard. For anyone tracking the next wave of AI labs, the question is what these teams build after the cheques clear. In this market, ambition is abundant; evidence of delivery is the rarer commodity.

Discuss: Should investors judge new AI labs by early product evidence, or give prominent researchers time to build before expecting results?

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