Ep 799: AI SuperApps: Why Every Company is Racing to Create One and What They are
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Any hour or day or week now, we'll get an official announcement from OpenAI that signals the biggest AI pivot we've seen since ChatGPT. And that's the official rollout of their AI super app. So the ChatGPT parent company, now with 1 billion weekly active users, made headlines recently when a senior executive off the record at least said three words to a reporter that will probably echo for months. Chat is dead. So any day we'll get the official announcement of OpenAI's new super app, their push to bring an autonomous coworker to millions of companies. But it's not just OpenAI making this push. Actually, Anthropic started the wave many months ago with their rollout of Cloud Code and Cloud Cowork, and every other big tech challenger is racing to get their version of an AI super app some momentum.
Google released theirs in Anti-Gravity 2.0, Cursor has quietly become a serious contender in the space, and Microsoft also announced their upcoming super app as well. But that begs the obvious question, what the heck is a super app? And why should my company take note? Well, we're going to tackle the latest work layer shift on today's show. So welcome to everyday AI and our start here series, but let's go over the big picture of what's happening now. So Infrapix started this desktop agentic era with Claude code and Claude cowork in late 2025 and early 2026, but Anthropic hasn't really been able to build off of that momentum, at least when it comes to being the big name in the room when it comes to an AI super app.
What is an AI SuperApp and why is it the next work-layer shift?
And I think OpenAI's super app, which is essentially Codex, right? And it will... uh be a little more tightly integrated into chat gbt will be coming any day and i think that's really going to set the tone for this big pivot to the super app era right and microsoft i think especially when you have open ai and microsoft in the coming weeks or months shifting most of their agentic focus to a super app i think the rest of the enterprise really needs to pay attention So on today's show, we're going to be diving into and stick with me for the next 25 minutes. And here's what you're going to learn. Why Anthropic started the super app race, but they have kind of fallen out of immediate contention. You're going to know why the models are no longer the moat and the super app harness matters more than ever.
And you're going to kind of know the state of the super app race, at least as it stands right now, right before we officially get it all kicked off. All right, let's get into it. Welcome to the Start Here series. This is Everyday AI's essential podcast series to both learn the AI basics and to double down on your knowledge. So if that's what you're trying to do, we're at the tail end of the Start Here series. Right now we're in episode, what are we on now? We're on volume 28 of this. So we'll probably do two more and wrap it at 30. But if you don't know the Start Here series, it's great. I would say start at volume one if you can and work your way up to where we are now. They're usually quicker episodes, about 30 minutes, give or take.
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