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October 11, 2024

ChatGPT for trillion-dollar industries - meet the startups using AI to engineer better hardware

Founders are applying today's most powerful AI techniques to the world of physics to help us invent better products


Tim Smith

5 min read

Since the launch of ChatGPT — much of the investor attention around AI has followed the SaaS playbook: using the technology to try to drive enterprise efficiencies. But the large language models (LLMs) that are powering many of these new B2B tools are designed in a way that means occasional errors in their output are difficult to fully eliminate, making them unsuitable for many business use cases.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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