Pre-seed startup, Fortune 500 corporate, same exact AI roadmap

Reddit r/AI_Agents 05/24/26, 06:55 PM News

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Summary

A reflection on how both pre-seed startups and Fortune 500 companies are pursuing the same generic AI use cases, highlighting a lack of differentiation in the current AI landscape.

Spent a day in NYC. Meetings with startups and Fortune 500 corporates. Everyone has the same AI ideas: \- Sales agent \- Support agent \- Document summarization \- Internal chat \- Workflow automation \- Marketing content generator \- Security for agents (!!!) Everyone reads the same blogs. Listens to the same podcasts. Sits through the same conference talks. A pre-seed startup and a Fortune 500 corporate open their decks with the exact same 5 slides. Where are the new ideas?

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