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No. 151ProposalSoftware and AI

The New AI Stack

Source

The idea

Build AI infrastructure, GenAI for big data, RAG, inference as a service, AI-builder tooling, and multimodal platforms.

Why this is interesting

  • Infrastructure, retrieval, inference as a service, builder tooling and multimodal platforms serve developers and AI teams inside companies. The buyer is an engineering or platform leader. The list covers several separate markets rather than one opportunity.
  • This is a global infrastructure category, and the source gives no India-specific condition. The software opportunity competes directly with cloud providers and model companies. The adoption assumption is that builders will add a new layer rather than use what their existing provider bundles.

Possible starting points

01

Retrieval evaluation tooling

Help teams measure whether their retrieval pipelines return correct and complete answers for their own documents.

02

Cost-aware inference routing

Help teams choose between models for each request based on cost, latency and quality they define.

Questions to answer

  1. Which layer of the stack is not being absorbed by cloud providers or model vendors?
  2. Who inside the customer owns this problem, and what are they using today?