> Generative Text for writing - Jasper AI going 0 to $75m ARR in 2 years

And laying off a ton of staff in July..... the latest ARR numbers are not nearly as good.

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I think there are some killer products, but the surface area here is not that big. I can definitely see how we can improve on all of the above, but at the rate things are developing right now, you're looking at smaller and specialized models as the underlying infrastructure. Keeping the conversation focused on Anthropic, unless there is promise of some specific functions outside this range that require big powerful models, they're in trouble.

There is a world in which the dust settles and the current "era" of AI doesn't actually result in a significant amount of productivity/value creation and capture thereof. Everything rests on the current assumption that emergent behaviors and some semblance of consciousness can extrapolate infinitely. You have to believe that in order to justify the investments we're currently seeing in some of the big players.

Do they have a moat though? When MS Office integrates a more powerful model than is even available to Jasper right into the word processor, what happens?