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Public story · 2026-03-14 · source-backed
a16z's sixth edition shows ChatGPT at 900M weekly active users. Claude paid subscriptions grew 200% year-on-year. Key trend: agent products (Manus, Genspark) entered the top 100 for delegated tasks, while embedded AI (Claude in Excel/PowerPoint) is displacing standalone tool usage.
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The July 1 release added External Agents, letting Claude and Cursor operate inside the workspace, plus multi-agent workflows, Excel and PowerPoint read-write, and audit logging of custom-agent activity (Notion). This is productivity SaaS repositioning as a neutral surface that...
Agent OS launched August 20, bundling the Binance API, Binance x402, the Wallet Agentic Hub and a Skill Hub behind an MCP server callable from Claude Code, Codex, VS Code and ChatGPT without local API key management. After authorization an agent can pull market data and execut...
iOS 27 introduces an Extensions system letting users pick a third-party model for Writing Tools, Image Playground, and other features. With Apple's ~2.2 billion active devices, even 5% Claude adoption would exceed Anthropic's entire current user base. Model choice is moving to...
MCP now has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. First-class client support across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and VS Code. Governed by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. AAIF also hosts Goose (op...
The July 29 walkthrough covers the consumer chat UIs of both products, not the developer APIs or CLI harnesses where MCP is well-trodden. That summary judgment is the finding. Know that friction before you plan any distribution strategy assuming end users will attach your MCP...
Announced August 26, it's a dedicated channel type for long-running agent work that an agent can spin up from an existing conversation and carry that context into. Because it's built on the normal channel model, visibility, membership, notifications, approvals and permissions...
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