[mikercampbell]

> A few days ago, the CEO of Vercel—an AI coding startup that, as of Tuesday, raised a $300 million Series F at a $9 billion—posted a selfie with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Vercel is a product for AI developers that companies like Meta are investing heavily in in order to develop their AI faster than competitors.

As an aside, when was Vercel ever an AI company? I’ve been (past tense, but I left a bit ago) a customer for years and it was a “hosting service with convenient feature bundling”.

Labeling everyone an AI company is watering down so much detail and nuance to put it lightly.

[bdangubic]

I saw IBM being referred to as similar (without the startup part) :)

[CLPadvocate]

some time ago, IBM was not only AN AI company, it was THE AI company of their time (with Deep Blue, then with Watson).