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To Train or Not to Train
The case for and against post-training for application layer companies
Apr 27 • Tanay Jaipuria
AI Applications and Vertical Integration
The two kinds of "full-stack" AI application companies
Mar 30 • Tanay Jaipuria
Moats in the Age of AI
How the Seven Powers shift in the age of AI
Mar 3 • Tanay Jaipuria
RL and The Era of Experience
On RL scaling, the emerging RL ecosystem and improving agent reliability
Feb 10 • Tanay Jaipuria
Monetizing AI surfaces: Ads in the age of AI
Ads in AI today, OpenAI's Ads Plans and What "Ads for Agents" Might Mean
Jan 28 • Tanay Jaipuria
Two AI Lab IPOs: S-1 Breakdowns
Notes from Zhipu and MiniMax's IPO Filings
Jan 21 • Tanay Jaipuria
A few themes for 2026
The obligatory predictions piece
Dec 29, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
AI Agents That Work While You Sleep
Moving beyond chat to background, ambient, and proactive AI
Nov 17, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
When ARR is not ARR
How ARR today is sometimes neither annual, nor recurring, nor revenue
Oct 28, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
The OpenAI Effect
How single OpenAI headlines are repricing stocks across the board
Oct 16, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
ChatGPT and the Great Bundling
On ChatGPT use cases and jobs to be done
Sep 22, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
The AI Browser Wars Are Here
Why the browser matters and the state of the AI browser landscape
Sep 9, 2025 • Tanay Jaipuria
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