Anthropic wants to eat my startup’s lunch. Here’s why I’m not worried
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Foundation model vendors moving upstack into applications is now the default, so defensibility has to live in distribution, data, or workflow depth. If your startup is a thin wrapper on a single model API, treat this as a prompt to either deepen the wedge or diversify your dependencies.
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