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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon: why this signal is getting harder to ignore

Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough.

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Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough. Less than a year after launching, Yupp is closing its business, co-founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne announced on Tuesday.

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Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough.

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Less than a year after launching, Yupp is closing its business, co-founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne announced on Tuesday.

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Yupp offered a crowdsourced AI model-picking service. It allowed consumers to test and compare results from a supply of 800 AI models for free, including the state-of-the-art ones from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Yupp would return multiple replies from the prompt request, including information or images, and users would offer feedback on which models worked best for them and why.

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