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Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
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Everyone keeps bolting a chatbot sidebar onto Word and calling it innovation. Turakhia's bet is that you cannot retrofit an AI native product out of decades old office software, so he rebuilt the whole stack from scratch. A lone founder putting his own thirty million dollars behind that thesis, instead of raising a big round first, is the kind of conviction bet worth watching.
Source: TechCrunch
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