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Traditionally, product releases can be cumbersome, requiring multiple sign-offs, endless tinkering, bureaucracies and friction points.
Genspark has developed a much different approach.
The AI workspace company’s lean team practices AI-native working — or ‘vibe working,’ if you will — so that they can move at what they call “gen speed.” This allows them to release new products and features in rapid-fire succession (nearly every week or so), steadily driving up annual recurring revenue (ARR). As the company boasts, it could be “the fastest-growing startup ever in terms of ARR.”
“When people are working the AI-native way, basically everybody is the manager,” Kaihua (Kay) Zhu, co-founder and CTO, told VentureBeat. “They are equipped with a team of AI agents, which are kind of their reportees, and they are capable of, single-handedly, delivering the feature end-to-end. “
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Aggressive rollouts, stoking competition
Genspark, launched in June 2024 by MainFunc, was initially focused on AI search. But despite reaching an impressive 5 million users, the company pivoted away from that initial product to Super Agent, which, instead of following a static sequence of steps as in traditional search, chooses the best tools or sub-agents for the job, gauges results and adjusts in real time.
Launching on April 2, Super Agent is powered by Anthropic’s Claude and can condense an afternoon of white collar office work into 5 minutes, Zhu claims. For instance, it can make calls, download, fact check, produce podcasts, draft documents, perform deep research and pull together spreadsheets and slides.
“We still see it as a kind of search, but it’s more technically advanced,” said Zhu, who has more than 20 years of experience working in search at Google and Baidu.
The company has aggressively added more and more features over the last four months; here’s a rundown of its rollouts and milestones:
April 11: Reached $10 million ARR just 9 …