Eurazeo partner Hala Fadel on whether Big Tech is eating AI startups’ lunch

Ask AI founders what keeps them up at night, and increasingly they’ll reply it’s whatever new tool US tech giants like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic might be plotting next.

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