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Wave 1May 30, 2026
The AI Citation Gap
How often ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity cite funded B2B AI startups vs. incumbents.
5,400 row-level engine responses across 15 buyer-intent prompts, 5 categories, 4 engines, n=3 runs per cell, with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. Funded startups cited ~10% of the time vs. ~34% for incumbents. Full dataset published under CC BY 4.0.
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The AI Citation Gap

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