Next great AI companies will own strange new sensors, not better web scrapers
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-08-21
Andrew Carr predicts that the next wave of great AI companies will not differentiate themselves through superior web scraping capabilities, but rather by owning "strange new sensors." This suggests that future competitive advantages and data moats will stem from novel data collection methods in the physical world, moving beyond existing internet text data.
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