How the Best Companies Use AI
4/19/202627 min
A deep dive into what separates the AI leaders from the laggers, drawing on the recent PwC study, McKinsey's AI Transformation Manifesto, George Sivulka's a16z essay on institutional vs. individual AI, and a close look at how Ramp built its internal AI system Glass. The throughline: leading companies treat AI as a growth and opportunity technology, and they build organizational systems that raise the floor for every employee rather than leaving people to figure it out alone.
Sources:
https://www.a16z.news/p/institutional-ai-vs-individual-ai
https://x.com/sebgoddijn/status/2042285915435937816
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Today we are discussing how the best companies at using AI are using AI. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Blitzy, Granola, Section, and Assembly. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Ad-free is just three dollars a month. To learn more about sponsoring the show or really anything else about the show, you can go to aidailybrief.ai. It's gonna have links to pretty much everything we got cooking from free education programs to our AI operators community to the new newsletter. That is where you can find all the links that I talk about in the show to, of course, our companion experience page. We did one of those for our how to use Opus four seven and the new Codex app episode on Friday. Today's episode combines a number of the big themes that we've been talking about this year. Twenty twenty-six kicked off with everyone coming back from the holiday break, really understanding and grappling with just how big an advance we had gotten between the harnesses like Claude Code and Codex and like the models like Opus four five and the GPT five two, five three series that had come out around the end of last year. Ever since then, it has just been a race, and it has been very clear that there is a massive difference and a growing difference between the people