AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round of seed funding to compete against OpenAI in the building, training and application of large language models and generative AI. \nFor nontechnical founders, I get excited about how they can lean into their strengths: (1) deep domain expertise in the sectors they are starting a company (something we often see in vertical SaaS companies where founders have “lived the problem; (2) an ability to recruit and hire amazing talent around them; and (3) a keen sense of customer focus, understanding of market dynamics and business model planning that is important and often the strength of nontechnical founders. com\/2021\/10\/03\/komunidad-a-philippines-based-environmental-intelligence-platform-lands-seed-round\/the-philippines-typhoon-on-boracay-island\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo of palm trees bending in category 1 typhoon winds on Boracay Island in the Philippines"},"author":4330449,"license":{"source_key":"getty images","person":"John Seaton Callahan","person_url":"https:\/\/www