The ‘Easy’ AI Boom is Dead. Here’s What’s Actually Winning.
The ‘easy’ AI boom is dead. A look at CB Insights’ 2026 AI 100 list reveals that the real winners aren’t building thin wrappers over LLMs. They’re diving into the messy, unglamorous trenches of Agent governance, physical robotics, and self-feeding proprietary data moats that even future super-models can’t breach.