AI & I

Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars.

But Every’s Kieran Klaassen built Cora—a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible b...

AI is going to change science forever.

Small scale studies will give way to large scale open data gathering efforts. We’ll shift from seeking broad general theories to making contextual predictions in individual cases. The traditional research paper will change fundamentally.

T...

Chris Pedregal knows how to build AI products that people love. 

Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings. We use it for many of our meetings at Every—the app listens in on the conversation, transcribes it in the background, and when the meet...

Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds.

In January 2024, researcher Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT to build a simple app on this podcast. Nearly 12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built...

Over the last few months at Every, we’ve launched two new AI products with tens of thousands of users, and we’ll release a third one before the end of the year. The weird thing is: We’re a media company with less than 10 full-time employees, and we’re mostly bootstrapped.

That’s...

Everyone told Vicente Silveira that his startup—a GPT wrapper—would fail. Instead, one year later, it’s thriving—with about 500,000 registered users, nearly 3,000 paying subscribers, and over 2 million conversations in the GPT store. 

Vicente is the cofounder and CEO of AI PDF, ...

Prompt engineering isn’t just about telling AI to solve your problems—it’s about knowing which ones to solve. 

Yet there’s a mismatch between the people who can identify the right problems—experts with deep domain knowledge—and the technical infrastructure required for developin...

Notion cofounder Simon Last told me everything he’s learned from integrating an AI application into a platform that has over 100 million users.

Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI, one of the most widely scaled AI applications i...

Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. 

But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in...

Yohei Nakajima⁠ leads a double life. 
By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, ⁠Untapped Capital⁠. 
By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on ⁠automating his job as a venture capitalist.)
He’s the creator of BabyA...

Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine. 

I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books.

A lot has changed over the last ...

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