Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it's too early to be locked into one foundational model. That means there's a market for a layer between companies and large language models (LLMs) ' something companies can use to pick LLMs easily without needing to commit for all time to one platform. That's the market Langdock is targeting with its chat interface that sits between LLMs and a company. Based out of Germany, the startup has recently raised a $3 million seed round led by General Catalyst and its European seed-stage partner, La Famiglia. 'Companies don't want to have a vendor lock-in on just one of those LLM providers,' Lennard Schmidt, co-founder and CEO of Langdock, told TechCrunch. 'So we've kind of abstracted that away in an interface that allows a company to choose which of the underlying models from different vendors can be used by employees.' The funding round also saw participation from Y Combinator and some noted German founders,...
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