Who Cares About Consumer AI
Consumer AI is the fastest-growing tech category in history, but the AI industry’s money, attention, and compute are moving hard toward enterprise and coding agents. NLW explores why consumer AI suddenly feels secondary, why token consumption may matter more than paid seats, and why ads, agentic commerce, and AI devices may be the only paths that make consumer AI economically impossible to ignore. In the headlines: Coinbase layoffs and the AI alibi, Anthropic’s massive Google Cloud deal, Palantir earnings, Larry Fink on compute as a commodity, and Cerebras IPO demand.April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGyCheck out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
