Week in Product #479 🚀
Robotics moment, Mastering Midjourney, Anthropic & OpenAI deeper integrations, Gemini-powered Maps, Building for agents, Top AI apps, China's OpenClaw push & more
Hi friends 👋
Welcome to a new Week in Product!
🎰 The week in figures
$50B: Cursor in talks for $50B valuation, doubling from $29.3B. Hit $2B ARR in Feb as the fastest-growing startup in "vibe coding" era
$500M: Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raised $500M Series A at $2B for AI-powered industrial robots. One of largest Series A rounds in robotics history
$450M: Rhoda AI emerged from stealth with $450M Series A for world model robotics. Predicts future states from video to enable adaptive robots
$400M: Replit raised $400M at $9B valuation, targeting $1B ARR. Expanding to Europe, Asia, Middle East with Agent 4 AI coding assistant
$400M: Lovable hit $400M ARR, up 33% in a single month, with its platform that turns natural language descriptions into production-ready applications
$250M: Intercom announced $250M funding to enhance Customer Agent product
$165M: Sunday Robotics hit $1.15B valuation with $165M raise. Household robots for laundry, cleaning, and other home tasks, competing with Tesla Optimus
-10%: Atlassian cuts 10% of workforce in AI pivot, reducing headcount by roughly 1,600 employees
📰 What’s going on
Anthropic subscribers will now get a context window of 1M tokens when using the Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models, at no additional charge
Anthropic has launched Code Review, a new tool inside Claude Code designed to catch bugs in AI-generated code before they make it into production. The product, which integrates with GitHub and automatically analyzes pull requests, targets enterprise customers dealing with the surge of code output from AI assistants
Claude shipped improvements to its Excel and PowerPoint integrations this week, along with interactive charts and diagrams. In Excel and Powerpoints, context is now shared across files. Previously, if you were working across both Excel and PowerPoint, you’d need to re-explain your data at each step. Now Claude maintains a single continuous conversation across all your open files, so it can read your spreadsheet, build out a financial model, drop the summary into a slide deck, and draft a follow-up email. Interactive charts and diagrams are almost like mini Artifacts that appear contextually inside a conversation
Perplexity launched a full-stack API platform for building agents with one key, including an Agent API for multi-step orchestration, real-time Search API (SOTA on SimpleQA/SEAL), and Embeddings API
Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer and Computer for Enterprise. Perplexity says that Computer saved their internal teams $1.6M in labour costs and performed the equivalent of 3.25 years of work in four weeks:
Personal Computer is a local version of its new Computer product, which this time runs locally (e.g. on a Mac Mini)
Computer for Enterprise connects to tools like Snowflake, Salesforce and HubSpot. Teams can interact with it directly through Slack and use it for delegating coding tasks, building dashboards and financial models, and running scheduled workflows asynchronously
Cursor shipped 30+ new Marketplace plugins (Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, HuggingFace) plus MCP Apps bringing interactive UIs directly into agent chats. Revenue reportedly surpassed $2B annually
Amazon held a mandatory engineering meeting after a string of outages hit its retail website and app, including a six-hour crash last week that left customers unable to check out, see prices, or access their accounts. An internal briefing note described the incidents as having a "high blast radius" and being related to "Gen-AI assisted changes"
Ramp launched new cards built for AI agents this week. Watch a demo
Apple to expand its Ultra lineup beyond the Watch and iPhone this year. Reports suggest new premium products may be arriving soon
Google rolled Gemini into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive for its 3B Workspace users. Gemini now writes formulas, pulls data from the web, builds dashboards, and reformats entire presentations on command. It’s basically an agentic collaborator living inside the tools you use 8 hours a day
Google launched Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for complex real-world questions with personalized recommendations, plus upgraded Immersive Navigation with richer 3D views
Google launched new multimodal capabilities with Gemini Embedding 2. This multimodal model can process text, images, and audio simultaneously, unlocking complex cross-modal understanding
Google’s new Gemini task automation can drive third‑party apps itself to order food or book rides from voice prompts (beta on Samsung S26 Ultra and Pixel 10). Instead of API integrations, it visually navigates app UIs in a virtual window
Meta bougth Moltbook, the “Reddit for AI Agents” that went viral last month after thousands of “Moltbots” joined and started interacting. They’re hoping to “open up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses” in an “always-on directory” format
Facebook Marketplace deploys AI auto-replies for buyer inquiries. Meta AI now handles "Is this still available?" messages, generates listing details from photos, and creates seller profile summaries for buyers
China surpasses U.S. in OpenClaw usage, driven by low-cost domestic models and government backing
Nvidia working on new open-source AI agent platform: NemoClaw. Launching with tools like OpenClaw, democratizing enterprise-grade agentic AI
Amazon launches health assistant. The app offers symptom checks, scheduling, and health guidance directly to consumers. Also, an AWS health AI agent platform automates patient scheduling, inquiries, & admin
Uber will introduce cars from the robotaxi service Motional to their rideshare app, starting in Las Vegas. At no extra charge, riders who opted for an Uber X, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort ride may get matched with an autonomous Motional Ioniq 5
Travis Kalanick is transforming his ghost kitchen company CloudKitchens into a robotics startup named Atoms. Aims to create “gainfully employed robots” for work in the food, mining, and transportation sectors
📚 Good reads
How Uber built an agentic system to automate design specs in minutes. Design systems teams are starting to skip weeks of manual spec-writing and go straight from a Figma component link to production‑ready documentation. Uber’s uSpec shows how an agentic, local-first AI pipeline can read component data (tokens, variants, accessibility semantics), interpret it, and then render polished specs directly into Figma
Where we are right now, and what happens next. Ethan Mollick reflects on how a few pioneering orgs are rebuilding how they ship software around AI, and what it means. Because capabilities are improving on steep exponential curves (and may accelerate via recursive self‑improvement), we’re heading into a period of rolling, confusing disruption in markets, jobs, and policy. For PMs, this is the brief window where experimentation with AI-native workflows, org design, and governance quietly sets the norms everyone else will end up copying. Let’s create!
Building for trillions of agents. Aaron Levie argues that rapidly improving AI agents will soon handle most digital work, becoming the primary “users” of software and outnumbering humans by orders of magnitude. For PMs, that means building API‑first, agent‑friendly products where signup, usage, and payments can all be driven programmatically (vs UI)
The Top100 GenAI consumer apps. Nice research piece by a16z exploring how AI is getting baked into mainstream tools like CapCut, Canva, Notion, and browsers. Creative tools are bundling into large platforms while niche video, music, and voice apps carve out defensible spaces. For PMs, agentic experiences and deeply embedded AI are interesting opportunity spaces to explore
🎧 Good listen/watch
How Notion devs orchestrate their coding agents. This demo gives a glimpse at the future of building with agents in Notion. Here Notion creates new tasks from a meeting note, Cursor handles coding, and a Kanban board keeps parallel agent work legible across the team
Building a 1M+ subscriber newsletter. Lenny shares how a mix of serendipity, a strong pull toward writing, and one confidence(& psychedelic)-boosting moment in Joshua Tree led him from Airbnb PM to full-time creator. He talks through 9 months of weekly posts before turning on a paywall, his editing process, and the invisible treadmill of creator businesses
🧑💻 Worth learning
Using Claude Code to run your work life. Dave Killeen (CPO at Pendo) uses a Claude Code “OS” to turn messy PM workflows into one slash-command daily plan, wired into tools like calendar, CRM, Granola, and LinkedIn. He combines skills, MCP servers, and hooks so every meeting, decision, and mistake map into living markdown files that get smarter over time. A useful blueprint to an AI-native system that plans your day, ships projects, and even tracks your career growth automatically
Mastering Midjourney. AI creative director Jamey Gannon shares a hands-on system for creating consistent, beautiful brand visuals in Midjourney. She explains how to use style references, personalization codes, and smart routing across tools, and how to steer image generation. For PMs, it’s a practical look & inspiration into a scalable visual system you can ship with
🔧 Products to try
MagicPath turns any website URL into a fully editable app design in seconds; paste the link, the AI imports the live page, and you can visually edit, iterate via chat, or extract components; free to try
Paperclip: an open-source tool that organizes your AI agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, whatever). It orchestrates a team of AI agents into an actual company with org charts, budgets, and governance; open source, self-hosted, free to run. (GitHub)
AgentMail gives your AI agents their own email address so they can sign up for services, verify via OTP, and manage inboxes autonomously; free to try
That’s a wrap for this week!
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Have a great weekend.
