"You either die an eval company or live to become a data vendor"
DrDatta_AIIMS · x · 2026-10-20
A viral AI-circle jab: "you either die an eval company, or live long enough to see yourself become a data vendor." The quip lands on a real business tension — evaluation startups struggle to monetize benchmarking alone and tend to drift into selling data, a take that even drew a rueful "Ouch" from a physician KLI with 34K followers.
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