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▶ 6:00 · $AMILABS · Ami Labs raises €1B seed to build world models, betting LLMs won't reach AGI
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Y Combinator

What Big Tech Missed And How Startups Can Still Win

2026-07-25 · 3 company · 9 thematic
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alex

Alex Schultz is the Chief Marketing Officer at Meta, author of 'Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising', and former growth leader at Meta overseeing ads ranking, engagement systems, and AI infrastructure.

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“if you want to build a foundational model, you need to buy thousands and thousands of GPUs. And so you need billions of euros. ... the real cost of this 1.2 billion was not dilution. Uh the real cost is is uh expectations.”
—alex
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