Anthropic just filed for an IPO at $965 billion. OpenAI isn't far behind. And every headline screams that either one, alone, would be worth more than the entire Indian IT industry. It's a great headline. It's also a erroneous comparison.

Most AI products are built by excited engineers, not frustrated users. In this article Arpit Srivastava decodes why that gap is killing startups and what it tells us about how AI should actually be built.