VentureBeat/Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Once upon a time, software ate the world. Now, AI is here to digest what’s left. The old model of computing, where apps ruled, marketplaces controlled access and platforms took their cut, is unraveling. What’s emerging is an AI-first world where software functions aren’t trapped inside apps but exist as dynamic, on-demand services accessible through AI-native interfaces. For decades, computing has been a glorified filing cabinet. Applications were digital folders, self-contained, rigid and walled off from one another. Want to check the weather? Open an app. Need to book a flight? Another app. Pay a bill? Yet another. The result? A fragmented user experience where we toggle between countless […]
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