A one-person startup, built over a weekend, reaches a billion-dollar valuation within weeks. The next blockbuster you watch is written and filmed, featuring an actor who doesn’t exist. A self-sustaining city on Mars, space-based manufacturing hubs, and gigawatt-scale orbital data centers powered by constant solar energy are all run by humanoids. The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to an AI model that discovers the cure for cancer.
None of these are real. Yet.
For centuries, human progress was dictated by the human brain, a pace intrinsically tied to the slow, methodical rhythm of evolution itself. That speed limit is now broken. A new intelligence has arrived that can think, reason, and create like us; incredibly fast and massive at scale. Soon, solutions to previously unsolvable problems will emerge.
It took companies like Netflix nearly a decade to scale. ChatGPT did it in months, reaching 100 million users faster than any app in history. That wasn't just a tech milestone. It was the moment GenAI entered everyday life.
That's equal to the entire population of:
... all trying a new app in just two months
This isn't just a cool tech story.
It's the start of something bigger.
GenAI is now helping write stories, build apps, design graphics, and summarize long documents; everywhere from classrooms to courtrooms, spreadsheets to soil sensors; AI is making its way into schools, farms, factories, hospitals and beyond.