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AI Moat

A durable competitive advantage that protects an AI product from being easily replicated by competitors, since the underlying models themselves are often accessible to everyone.

Since most AI wrappers use similar underlying foundation models, real moats tend to come from proprietary data, distribution, workflow integration, or trust — not the AI itself.
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