Stripe and xAI Strike a Deal That Reshapes the Map
A field report on RAG-as-a-service and what it changes for founders.
The interesting question is not whether Granola works. It does. The interesting question is what teams do with it once the novelty wears off.
What Google DeepMind actually shipped with Llama 4 is less a single capability and more a cluster of small, compounding improvements — the kind that only show up when you put a real workflow on top.
Figma has been quietly running pricing analysis through Linear AI for months. The results are unglamorous and, for that reason, more interesting than another benchmark chart.
Inside Zendesk, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
Inside Klarna, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
Inside Figma, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
None of this guarantees a clean story. Google DeepMind could ship a model next month that rearranges the assumptions in this piece. But the direction of travel, for now, is clear enough to plan around.