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May 21, 2026

Lexroom CEO: Anthropic won’t kill vertical AI companies

Paolo Fois, who raised $50m this week, isn’t worried about competition from big LLM players

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

One of tech’s biggest debates right now is whether AI application startups can survive once foundation model companies like Anthropic and OpenAI move into their territory.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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