AI Is Now Way Better at Predicting Startup Success Than VCs

In brief Oxford–Vela researchers created VCBench to test if AI can predict startup success. GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and others outperformed Y Combinator and top VCs. The study suggests that LLMs could become powerful early-stage investing tools. Could GPT-4 have spotted Airbnb in 2008—or Figma in 2012—before the pros did? A new paper from researchers at the...