makers + builders · 14 October 2026 · Additional Read

7 Days to $100M, 5 Days to Free

Parul Singh, Board Partner @ Initialized

Decision models—a new AI category that makes bounded choices rather than generating text—launched at $100M revenue in a week, then got replicated for $95 in open-source form within five days, signaling that software commoditization has reached a new inflection where defensibility now rests on integration and operations rather than capability alone.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · AI Infrastructure

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