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Turns out the AI money spigot isn’t endless.

Investor funding for AI startups fell for a second year, according to Stanford. Sounds like the reckoning is here!

Several things could be in play: recognition of AI’s challenges, less spending on expensive foundation models, and “the rapid rise and fall of certain marquee name startups in AI.” 👀

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