Here are the highlights from the week that was in AI and our spicy takes on what it actually means. 🌶️
This week, we’re thinking about AI providing companies the chance to scale bottoms up - with individual users and trusted networks of supporters. This will help you improve your business - so you can worry less about human extinction and more about growth.
Plus, a couple of throwbacks worth revisiting:
👉 Learn how to bring live data straight into your AI workflows with Chipp + Zapier + Google Sheets
👉 See how our Gold Partners at Purpose Driven AI help teams co-build solutions that actually stick.
AI Highlights from Around the Web
Gamma's $2.1B Lesson in Going After the Right Users
Siddhartha Saxena shares one of tech's biggest plot twists. A year ago, Tome AI dominated the AI presentation space with 20M users. Today, Gamma just hit $100M ARR and a $2.1B valuation while Tome's site throws a 404 error. The difference? Gamma built for everyday users while Tome chased enterprise deals.
🌶️ We are always full the tension between product-led growth and enterprise sales. The age of AI provides an opportunity to build for individuals and scale up to large orgs. Gamma did this better than most.
Speed Isn't Enough Anymore
Lenny Rachitsky points out the double-edged sword of AI development. Sure, AI makes building faster for everyone, but that means your competitors have the same advantage. Traditional growth channels like SEO and ads are getting crowded.
The winning move?
Build through ecosystems and partnerships. Companies like Gamma, Supabase, and Clay are growing by working with micro-influencers, power users, and trusted intermediaries instead of starting from zero.
🌶️ Trust becomes more important in the Age of AI when we're not sure what is real. Brands who can build trusted networks can win. That's why we love our Chippsters! 🥳
AI's Fork in the Road
Neil Irwin shares a striking (and kind of insane) visualization showing two possible futures: AI either ends scarcity and boosts trend growth by 0.2 percentage points, or leads to tech singularity.
The chart maps US real GDP per capita on a log scale from 1870 to 2024, with projections splitting into dramatically different paths.
🌶️ Chalk this up to 🤷 - I think as always it's somewhere in between so I'm betting on AI boosted growth. Plus, let's be stoic and control what we can control. Make your workflow and business more efficient first - worry about human extinction later.
Chipp Updates
How to Price and Sell Chipp
You've built your custom AI agent—now what? This workshop answers the most-asked question in our community: how do I actually make money with this? Join us to learn how to price your AI products and how to sell them with confidence.
Register here.
Supercharge Your Lovable App with Chipp
Michael Kline shows you how to build smarter, more personalized AI assistants in your Lovable apps without any limitations. The tutorial covers how to integrate Chipp into Lovable, choose from multiple AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, and train your assistant using your own documents.
