Why founders Are Suddenly Standardizing on Linear AI
Inside the quiet rewiring of contract review at Spotify.
For most of the last year, the conversation around fine-tuned distillation has been louder than the evidence. That is starting to change.
Inside Spotify, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
Inside Stripe, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
What Anthropic actually shipped with Qwen 3 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.
Inside Intercom, the rollout looked less like a moonshot and more like a slow migration. A pilot, a champion, a quiet expansion, a budget line.
What Cohere actually shipped with Command R+ 2 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.
None of this guarantees a clean story. Cohere 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.