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 <blockquote>Many apps are also relatively undifferentiated, since they rely on similar underlying AI models and haven’t discovered obvious network effects, or data/workflows, that are hard for competitors to duplicate.</blockquote>Companies that rely on underlying AI models without adding value via model improvements are going to find that they have no moat.