Follow the incentive: the idea that a gating network fundamentally opposes basic methods for venture capital prediction is an oversimplification promoted by those who benefit from selling "breakthroughs".
A gating network is not a dialectical opposition, but rather an optimization layer that relies on these underlying methods to refine prediction.
Basic methods, like models based on GNNs or LLMs, provide the fundamental signals without which gating cannot operate, like a sophisticated search engine integrating basic indexing algorithms.
The opposition is not logical; it is purely contextual, dictated by the motive to present a new technology as a complete revolution rather than an incremental improvement of the existing.
For example, even the most advanced gating network will depend on the quality of textual or structured data produced by basic models to evaluate a funding opportunity.