The 12-Month Window: How AI Startups Can Win Before Big Labs Close In
If you knew you had only 365 days to outrun OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, what would you ship tomorrow? That’s the tension animating today’s AI startup world. As TechCrunch reported on April 19, 2026, founders increasingly talk about a “12‑month window” before the giants move into their niche, deploy multimodal LLMs, and turn their…