The bar for AI startups will rise to require being recursively self-improving

The bar for AI startups will rise to require being recursively self-improving | I would forecast in the near term the bar is going up in fact from just being an AI startup to being now a recursively self-improving AI startup

I would forecast in the near term the bar is going up in fact from just being an AI startup to being now a recursively self-improving AI startup

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