No, no, non you don't understand. AlphaFold demonstrated serious artificial intelligence could help solve real, expensive, research problems with provable results and quantifiable value.
That is the worst thing you can do in the current environment; why would you want provable results? The moment you can prove which type of problem you can solve, everybody only asks about the 100 problems that have no line of sight to production and the 1000 problems you can only prove this cannot solve. That's how you get into ROI conversations in the first place and a single millions-lives-saving problem cannot justify trillion dollar valuations
But if you are *pre-solutions* and stick to demos and trustmebro benchmarks - you can say its all about AGI, baby! You're a pure potential play.
Its not what your tech can do, its about making promises large enough the investors can't risk to ignore the opportunity, and get them to invest large enough sums they can't afford to let you fail