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VCs Say Context Graphs Might Be The Next Big Thing In AI

Everyone is focused on AI models. Nobody is talking about the 40-year data gap that VCs think will define the next wave.

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VCs are betting on context graphs as the next major AI investment theme, targeting the massive gap between business outcomes data and the reasoning behind decisions in enterprise software.

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  1. 40 years of accumulated enterprise software data

  2. Context graphs emerging as new VC investment thesis

  3. Gap between captured business outcomes and reasoning processes

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Publisher excerpt: Enterprise software has accumulated forty years of data about business outcomes. It has captured almost none of the reasoning that produced them. That gap is now the center of a growing investment thesis among venture capitalists, anchored by a framework called the context graph.
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