フィールドノート
すべてのインフラがその価値を発揮する場所——行列演算を史上最速で普及した製品へと変えたアプリだ。これらのレコードで「研究プレビュー」から「週間ユーザー数億人」までを隔てる年数がいかに少ないかに注目してほしい。
まずこの三つから
CH
ChatGPT
製品全体の構築は、これを起点として下流に連なる。
CC
Claude Code
成熟したエージェント型コーディング――ソフトウェアがソフトウェアを書く、ターミナルの中で。
WD
Waymo Driver
具現化するAIの証明:完全無人、商業規模、今まさに。
Assistants & consumer AI
7
CH
ChatGPT
The fastest-adopted software product in history — and AI's front door.
CL
Claude
Anthropic's assistant — the professional's and programmer's choice.
G(
Gemini (app)
Google's assistant, fused into Search, Android and Workspace.
G(
Grok (on X)
The assistant living inside a social network.
MA
Meta AI
The assistant embedded in WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
MC
Microsoft Copilot
AI threaded through Windows, Office and the enterprise stack.
P(
Perplexity (answer engine)
Cited answers instead of links — search rebuilt around models.
Coding & developer tools
7
CU
Cursor
The AI-native editor that became a phenomenon.
CC
Claude Code
The terminal-native coding agent — Anthropic's breakout developer product.
DE
Devin
The 'AI software engineer' that started the autonomous-agent race.
GC
GitHub Copilot
The original AI pair programmer — first product of the LLM era at scale.
LO
Lovable
Europe's fastest startup ever by revenue ramp — apps from prompts.
OC
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI's software-engineering agent, from cloud sandbox to CLI.
RE
Replit
Natural-language app building for non-programmers.
Creative tools
4
E(
ElevenLabs (platform)
Voices as a service: dubbing, audiobooks, agents that speak.
M(
Midjourney (service)
The subscription image studio with the signature look.
NO
NotebookLM
Your documents, turned into podcasts and grounded answers.
S(
Suno (app)
Complete songs from a sentence — music's ChatGPT moment.
Enterprise, science & robotics
6
WD
Waymo Driver
The autonomous driver with hundreds of thousands of paid rides a week.
F0
Figure 03
The home-oriented humanoid, built for Helix.
GL
Glean
Enterprise search that became the company brain.
HA
Harvey
The elite law firms' AI associate.
SI
Sierra
Bret Taylor's customer-service agents — outcomes-priced AI labor.
TF
Tesla FSD (Supervised)
Vision-only autonomy shipped to millions of consumer cars.