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The majority of people still work in Teams or Slack every single day.
This is a surface area that’s currently very overlooked. I don’t need to spread myself into 5 new surfaces if I can get it all done where I already work.
This approach is how you reach scale in 2026. The next phase of growth in AI will come from the early majority. We’re currently in the late stages of early adopters and the beginning of the early majority.
classically the division looks like this.
- 2.5% innovators
- 13.5% early adopters
- 34% early majority
- 34% late majority
- 16% laggards
This is the typical adoption curve of anything, not just tech, basically everything follows this same pattern.
It’s why it’s extremely easy to plot the trends on AI in general.
Building for Slack is extremely on point and the timing is perfect. Since this year will see as many people start using AI as have already started to date.
2026 is the year where adoption will double in 12 months.
Great move by perplexity.

Aravind SrinivasMar 13, 07:51
Slack is going to be the interface for AI in the enterprise. And Perplexity Computer fits in very naturally into that interface. The next multi billion dollar and trillion dollar companies are all running on Slack and will see more tasks delegated to AIs than humans.
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Perplexity going after OpenClaw 💪🏼

PerplexityMar 12, 01:51
Announcing Personal Computer.
Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.
It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.
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Sounds to me Ben sold a LoRA and NB wrapper for $600M in cash.
Not bad, not bad at all.

Trung PhanMar 12, 21:10
Netflix aquired Ben Affleck’s AI film startup InterPositive for up to $600 million (based on certain milestones).
Affleck’s AI tool augments existing filmmaking workflows:
▫️directors can train a small model from their own dailies
▫️improves the post-production editorial process
▫️more quickly mix, color and finish films (use their trained model to change shots, add props, enhance backgrounds or remove visuals while keeping consistency)
Seems similar to work James Cameron is doing with AI and VFX.
Cameron says his interest in GenAI is to reduce post-production costs by making the “cadence faster, so your throughput cycle is faster and artists get to move on and do other cool things.”
If AI can reduce VFX costs by 1/2, Cameron thinks that means more blockbusters (including original IP or up-and-coming directors that wouldn’t otherwise get greenlit).
Affleck mentions “getting more episodes” of your favourite TV shows with his tech.
If Affleck hits the full $600 million cash deal, this looks to be Netflix’s largest tech acquisition ever.
Whether or not the tech is worth that much, Netflix is getting the Affleck halo of a well-known (but still skeptical) AI practitioner.
He has been Hollywood’s go-to takesman (eg. Rogan) on how AI can or can not change Hollywood (he doesn’t think it has creative chops for scriptwriting and thinks unions will protect a lot of acting/writing jobs for foreseeable future).
If Netflix wants to ramp its use of AI, Affleck’s narrow view of the technology’s use makes it less threatening and helps with creative talent (David Fincher already using it for Brad Pitt film, probably the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel).
“It’s not about text prompting or building something from nothing,” Affleck says. “You’re building a model from your own material.”
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Lucas Shaw at Bloomberg on deal structure:
Netflix CCO and CTO full interview Affleck:
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