Company Breakdowns
How the biggest AI products actually work under the hood. The stuff nobody explains in press releases.
ChatGPT
How OpenAI built the fastest-growing consumer app in history
ChatGPT went from zero to 100 million users in two months. That's not a typo. Here's how OpenAI turned a research lab demo into a consumer product that changed the conversation about AI forever.
100M
Users (2 mo)
$4B+
Revenue run rate
5 days
Time to 1M users
Midjourney
The AI art tool that grew to billions in revenue with 11 employees
$200M+
Revenue (est.)
~40
Team size
$0
VC funding
Notion AI
How Notion added AI to a beloved product without ruining it
30M+
Users
$10/mo
AI add-on price
$10B
Valuation
Duolingo
How the owl used AI to go from language app to education platform
34M+
DAU
$8B+
Market cap
40+
Languages
Perplexity
The startup trying to replace Google by letting AI do the searching
$9B+
Valuation
250M+
Queries/month
$20/mo
Pro price