Direct competitors plotted against the same knowledge domains as View 01, scored by what they had actually published or shipped. Cross-referencing the two views separated the crowded domains from the ones that were rising with nobody in them.
| Competitor institute | Gen AI | LLM | RAG | NLP | Computer vision | MLOps | Edge AI | Synthetic data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute A · automated support | ||||||||
| Institute B · document processing | ||||||||
| Institute C · intelligent search | ||||||||
| Institute D · data classification | ||||||||
| Institute E · applied research only | ||||||||
| Activity index · View 01 | 100 | 94 | 71 | 68 | 61 | 54 | 47 | 38 |
| Read as | Crowded. Enter only with a differentiated angle. | Contested, uneven depth. | Open | Early | ||||