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Wu: AI will create roughly 10 to 20 new power-law businesses

Scott Wu · Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents. · Mar 19, 2025 · at 24:26

Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, discusses market outcomes in AI across foundation model labs and vertical software application layers.

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“I think that a lot of the existing great businesses are going to do very well in the age of AI. I think there will be you know, in the neighborhood, I would say if kind of like you know, the 10 to 20 power law businesses of the new ones that come up from AI, you know,”

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