Meta now builds small apps just for Facebook's power users, because AI made them cheap enough to be worth it.
· 1 min read
Lower build and coordination costs change which niche products an incumbent can justify.
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The ERP says aluminum costs 8K. It doesn't show the three weeks of spreadsheets behind that number. Lio's agents do the work that never gets recorded.
· 5 min read
Google will spend more than $200 billion on infrastructure this year. Amin Vahdat runs it, and he says chip specs are the wrong measure.
· 5 min read
In a study of 500 people, "What do you do?" ranked last of six conversation starters. Vanessa Van Edwards on what to ask instead.
· 6 min read
a16z's growth fund backed Databricks at $6 billion and stayed through Series M. David George's view is that almost everything in AI will work.
· 5 min read
OpenAI pointed 10,000 agents at a Millennium Prize problem for 88 hours. That is about 4,000 years of one person thinking, and they solved it.
· 6 min read
Venky Ganesan watched $5,000 grow to $200,000 and refused to sell. The lesson from that loss shapes how Menlo backs startups, including Anthropic.
· 5 min read
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