Aspiring for Intelligence

Highlights From the 2026 IA40 Summit

Another summit, another year of AI acceleration

Oct 9 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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September 2026

The Rise Of The Neo Neo Lab

Enterprises are now becoming producers, not just consumers, of intelligence

Sep 25 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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Is the promise of “Siri” finally here?

Why Grok Bot, Town, and Instinct are taking center stage.. and is it here to stay?

Sep 11 • Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

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August 2026

Execution Is The Moat

The largest revenue pools in AI today were all dismissed as moatless commodities

Aug 21 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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Every Sector Will Have a ‘Claude Code Moment'

How the Browser Becomes an Agent and Why We Invested in Polar Browser

Aug 7 • Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

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July 2026

Open Weights, Many Winners

AI is moving from a duopoly to a multipolar world of many winners

Jul 24 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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Own the Data Loop

The real AI moat isn't the model or the harness, but the data flywheel you build on both

Jul 10 • Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

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June 2026

Frontier No More?

Five compounding forces are challenging the centrality of frontier models. Are we at the end of the "model dominance" era?

Jun 18 • Vivek Ramaswami, Sabrina Albert, and Caleb Bushner

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Your Vendor Is Your Competitor

Why the frontier labs are aggressively adding services arms and what that means

Jun 5 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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May 2026

Remembering S. "Soma" Somasegar

1966 – 2026. A tech titan, a wise mentor, a partner, and our friend.

May 22 • Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

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The Vibe Coding Hangover

In a world where anyone can ship anything, product taste and design craft becomes the moat that matter

May 8 • Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

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April 2026

From Scarcity To Abundance

What does the world look like when we are no longer compute constrained?

Apr 24 • Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Albert

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