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The AI Models That Top Startups Are Suddenly Choosing Over ChatGPT

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24.12.2025

OpenAI is no longer the favorite model provider among startups, according to one promising cohort.

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

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Famed San Francisco-based startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator says that one AI model provider has overtaken OpenAI in popularity among the accelerator’s latest batch of startups, eliminating the ChatGPT-maker’s previous market dominance. 

On a December 22 episode of official Y Combinator podcast Lightcone, YC general partner Diana Hu said that “shockingly,”

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