I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 73% Are Lying - pub.towardsai.net/i-reverse-en…

Three weeks of network monitoring revealed the truth: 73% of funded AI startups are running $33M valuations on $1,200/month in OpenAI…

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I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups.

I reverse-engineered 200 funded AI startups. 73% are just OpenAI/Claude wrappers. The $47M company running on $1,200/month in API costs. Network logs included.

^{Teja Kusireddy (Towards AI)}