Rise of the AI Wrappers

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Was this newsletter forwarded to you?Sign upto get it in your inbox.We're at a rare moment: Some of the world’s richest companies are practically giving away access to their most powerful AI models in an effort to become kings of the next technological frontier.If you're an expert in anything—law, medicine, energy, construction, agriculture, you name it—the opportunity has never been clearer: take your subject-matter expertise, combine it with the increasingly powerful capabilities of AI, and build a tool that helps you achieve your goals. And these tools, also known as AI wrappers, have become tidy businesses.It happened in software engineering first, naturally, because so many AI experts are expert software engineers. Windsurf dramatically speeds up software development with AI, and now OpenAI wants to buy the company forabout $3 billion(more on this below). Cursor, which does the same,reportedlyturned down OpenAI last year (it’s nowvaluedat $9 billion). The same trend is playing out in adjacent fields. Figma’snew featuresbring AI to user interaction and experience design by turning designs into working sites and creating content in your style. Descript, which makes video-editing software, is usingAI agentsto speed up content creation.And we're still at the early stage of a much broader wave. Big winners will sprout anywhere people have domain expertise and problems worth solving.Click hereto read the full postWant the full text of all articles in RSS?Become a subscriber, orlearn more.

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