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Your engineering moat is shrinking as domain experts gain training tools
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from TechCrunch AI2h ago
This funding signals a shift where your competitive advantage moves from engineering pipelines to the quality of expert feedback. Founders should evaluate if their product's moat relies on custom code or on the proprietary domain expertise powering the training.
Takeaways
- $300M valuation signals high demand for non-technical model training interfaces.
- Shift focus from building training pipelines to capturing expert domain knowledge.
- Your hiring roadmap may need more SMEs and fewer fine-tuning engineers.
Read the original at techcrunch.com
Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
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