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Traditionally, product releases can be cumbersome, requiring multiple sign-offs, endless tinkering, bureaucracies and friction points.
Genspark has developed a much different approach.
The AI workspace company’s lean team practices AI-native working — or ‘vibe working,’ if you will — so that they can move at what they call “gen speed.” This allows them to release new products and features in rapid-fire succession (nearly every week or so), steadily driving up annual recurring revenue (ARR). As the company boasts, it could be “the fastest-growing startup ever in terms of ARR.”
“When people are working the AI-native way, basically everybody is the manager,” Kaihua (Kay) Zhu, co-founder and CTO, told VentureBeat. “They are equipped with a team of AI agents, which are kind of their reportees, and they are capable of, single-handedly, delivering the feature end-to-end. “
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Genspark, launched in June 2024 by MainFunc, was initially focused on AI search. But despite reaching an impressive 5 million users, the company pivoted away from that initial product to Super Agent, which, instead of following a static sequence of steps as in traditional search, chooses the best tools or sub-agents for the job, gauges results and adjusts in real time.
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