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<ul><li>Browser automation enables AI agents to programmatically and robustly interact with legacy systems by using websites like a human to use apps and enter data, with MCP enabling AI voice agents &amp; chatbots to chain browser automation together into end-to-end workflows that can replace humans.</li><li>First as developer infrastructure for browser use from companies like Browserbase ($67.5M raised, CRV &amp; Kleiner Perkins), browser automation has expanded to non-technical operations teams via products like Asteroid (YC W25), with the opportunity to eat $2B+ of yearly spend on incumbent automation companies like UiPath (NYSE: PATH, $9B market cap) in enterprise.</li><li>Asteroid is a platform where teams can build and run AI browser agents. These AI browser agents can automate complex browser workflows people still do by hand in web portals such as form filling, data entry, and scheduling.</li></ul>

Browser automation enables AI agents to programmatically and robustly interact with legacy systems by using websites like a human to use apps and enter data, with MCP enabling AI voice agents &amp; chatbots to chain browser automation together into end-to-end workflows that can replace humans.First as developer infrastructure for browser use from companies like Browserbase ($67.5M raised, CRV &amp; Kleiner Perkins), browser automation has expanded to non-technical operations teams via products like Asteroid (YC W25), with the opportunity to eat $2B+ of yearly spend on incumbent automation companies like UiPath (NYSE: PATH, $9B market cap) in enterprise.Asteroid is a platform where teams can build and run AI browser agents. These AI browser agents can automate complex browser workflows people still do by hand in web portals such as form filling, data entry, and scheduling.

David Mlcoch, co-founder & CEO Of Asteroid, On Browser Automation And The Last Mile Problem Of AI

<ul><li>Datacurve closed a $15 million Series A in October 2025 led by Chemistry, with participation from Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, and employees from DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.</li><li>The enterprise AI coding assistant market is projected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2024 to $19 billion by 2033, driven by Fortune 500 internal copilot deployments.</li><li>If major customers decide to handle data collection internally or reduce training data budgets, Datacurve's revenue could face significant impact.</li></ul>

Datacurve closed a $15 million Series A in October 2025 led by Chemistry, with participation from Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, and employees from DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.The enterprise AI coding assistant market is projected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2024 to $19 billion by 2033, driven by Fortune 500 internal copilot deployments.If major customers decide to handle data collection internally or reduce training data budgets, Datacurve's revenue could face significant impact.

<ul><li>Software development has moved away from the IDE as the “Microsoft Word for code” toward AI-assisted IDEs, starting as AI-in-the-IDE via tab autocomplete in GitHub Copilot (2021) and then getting popularized as the AI-IDE via chat panels in Cursor ($500M ARR in May 2025) & Windsurf ($82M ARR in July 2025 when acquired by agent company Cognition).</li><li>As AI assistance has progressed from code generation & handling one-shot tasks to planning & executing on multi-step workflows, human developers have moved upstream in the development process to tech-lead orchestration, with interfaces flipping to an agent-first workflow of chat in the terminal (Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, Warp) and code review of agent work behind that in the diff/code-review pane.</li><li>Fully autonomous agents promise to operate not just across your code base but throughout your deployment, dev tools, and project management SaaS, spinning up on CI failures (CircleCI), production errors (Sentry), or new tickets (Linear) and building features and fixing issues without interactive prompting and human intervention.</li></ul>

Software development has moved away from the IDE as the “Microsoft Word for code” toward AI-assisted IDEs, starting as AI-in-the-IDE via tab autocomplete in GitHub Copilot (2021) and then getting popularized as the AI-IDE via chat panels in Cursor ($500M ARR in May 2025) & Windsurf ($82M ARR in July 2025 when acquired by agent company Cognition).As AI assistance has progressed from code generation & handling one-shot tasks to planning & executing on multi-step workflows, human developers have moved upstream in the development process to tech-lead orchestration, with interfaces flipping to an agent-first workflow of chat in the terminal (Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, Warp) and code review of agent work behind that in the diff/code-review pane.Fully autonomous agents promise to operate not just across your code base but throughout your deployment, dev tools, and project management SaaS, spinning up on CI failures (CircleCI), production errors (Sentry), or new tickets (Linear) and building features and fixing issues without interactive prompting and human intervention.

Zach Lloyd, CEO Of Warp, On The 3 Phases Of AI Coding

<ul><li>Foundation model companies OpenAI & Anthropic commoditized the first wave of vertical AI companies that reasoned over public data—like web PDFs, patents and earnings calls—with agentic products that browse the web, do deep research and build datasets, spurring the next wave of vertical AI companies that focus on integrating frontier models with vertical-specific workflows, embedded with proprietary telemetry that captures document diffs, user corrections & tool calls.</li><li>In highly-regulated, risk-averse industries, less than 1% of manual workflows have been replaced with AI as companies fear IP exposure through third-party models, unauditable changes to high-stakes documents, and AI-generated content they can't verify or trace back to source material, creating the opportunity for companies like Raycaster for biotech (Seed, Y Combinator) alongside bigger players like Harvey for law ($21M Series A, Sequoia) and Hebbia for finance ($30M Series A, Index Ventures).</li><li>Today&#39;s emerging vertical AI playbook: 1) embed engineers a la Palantir&#39;s forward-deployed model to build AI workflows and automate away manual processes, 2) hire domain experts as internal evaluators through a Mercor-like contractor network to tune &amp; improve outputs, and 3) capture customers’ usage data to continually improve the system.</li></ul>

Foundation model companies OpenAI & Anthropic commoditized the first wave of vertical AI companies that reasoned over public data—like web PDFs, patents and earnings calls—with agentic products that browse the web, do deep research and build datasets, spurring the next wave of vertical AI companies that focus on integrating frontier models with vertical-specific workflows, embedded with proprietary telemetry that captures document diffs, user corrections & tool calls.In highly-regulated, risk-averse industries, less than 1% of manual workflows have been replaced with AI as companies fear IP exposure through third-party models, unauditable changes to high-stakes documents, and AI-generated content they can't verify or trace back to source material, creating the opportunity for companies like Raycaster for biotech (Seed, Y Combinator) alongside bigger players like Harvey for law ($21M Series A, Sequoia) and Hebbia for finance ($30M Series A, Index Ventures).Today&#39;s emerging vertical AI playbook: 1) embed engineers a la Palantir&#39;s forward-deployed model to build AI workflows and automate away manual processes, 2) hire domain experts as internal evaluators through a Mercor-like contractor network to tune &amp; improve outputs, and 3) capture customers’ usage data to continually improve the system.

Levi Lian, CEO Of Raycaster, On Why Vertical AI Is Workflows First & Chat Last

<ul><li>In late September 2025, Granola launched “Recipes,” a repeatable prompts feature invoked with “/” in chat that lets users create, share, and reuse pre- and post‑meeting workflows.</li><li>The company projects it can take over 80-90% of standard meeting-related tasks like preparing participant dossiers, writing follow-up emails, creating tickets from bug reports, and sending cross-team feedback.</li><li>The pricing structure employs strategic tiering: $18/user/month for individuals, a deliberately lower $14/user/month for business users, and $35/user/month for enterprises requiring advanced security controls.</li></ul>

In late September 2025, Granola launched “Recipes,” a repeatable prompts feature invoked with “/” in chat that lets users create, share, and reuse pre- and post‑meeting workflows.The company projects it can take over 80-90% of standard meeting-related tasks like preparing participant dossiers, writing follow-up emails, creating tickets from bug reports, and sending cross-team feedback.The pricing structure employs strategic tiering: $18/user/month for individuals, a deliberately lower $14/user/month for business users, and $35/user/month for enterprises requiring advanced security controls.

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Anthropic, PBC operates as an AI safety and research company. The Company builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Anthropic serves customers in the United States.

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David Mlcoch, co-founder & CEO Of Asteroid, On Browser Automation And The Last Mile Problem Of AI

Can you tell us what Asteroid is and what inspired you to start the company...

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Primer: Datacurve - 10 Oct 2025

Platform providing high-quality coding data for training and evaluating large language models

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Zach Lloyd, CEO Of Warp, On The 3 Phases Of AI Coding

In short, what is Warp...

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Levi Lian, CEO Of Raycaster, On Why Vertical AI Is Workflows First & Chat Last

What is Raycaster in short and what inspired you to start the company...

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Primer: Granola - 02 Oct 2025

Desktop note-taking app that uses AI to enhance user-written meeting notes post-call

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