The Adoption of Machine Learning Will Resemble the Adoption of Databases | by Bryan Offutt | Index Ventures

What Defines an AI Company?

A simple test: remove the core AI component - does the company still function well, attract users, and maintain similar revenue growth? If the answer is no, then AI isn't just an add on.

It needs to be the foundation of the business.

Take Cursor, for example. Its standout feature, Composer, powers the agentic coding experie... See more

Moving on to more sophisticated alternatives, what about the queries that any good database engine can answer, or the simple algorithms in a statistical package? Aren’t those enough? These are bigger Lego bricks, but they’re still only bricks. A database engine never discovers anything new; it just tells you what it knows. Even if all the humans in

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Today, databases are basically siloed — every application has its own. This has many bad implications: redundant infrastructure, honeypots of data with poor security, fragmented data. It also means that every application must have its own database to feed its logic and its interface. The 3 layers — interface, logic, and database — have to be bundle... See more