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On October 23, 2026, Marc Andreessen said in an interview that there is a cognitive gap between AI-native teams and traditional giants. He said that traditional giants still treat large models as a plug-in for reducing costs and increasing efficiency, while AI-native teams use machine intelligence as the underlying skeleton, and two people plus a full set of automated Agents can run the entire chain from market insight, software engineering, and full-stack design to business sales. Another report on the same day said that he believes the gap in understanding of AI capabilities between AI-native startups and traditional giants is the largest he has ever seen, with almost no industry being an exception; AI capabilities are improving rapidly week by week, and a large number of industries will be reshuffled in a more fundamental way. He also cautioned that a cognitive generational gap does not equal short-term financial performance, and AI-native teams still have to face tests of customer retention and cash flow.
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Marc Andreessen on the cognitive gap between AI-native teams and traditional giants
In an interview, Marc Andreessen said that traditional giants still treat large models as a plug-in for cost reduction and efficiency gains, while AI-native teams take machine intelligence as their underlying skeleton; two people plus a full set of automated Agents can run the entire chain from market insight, software engineering, and full-stack design to business sales. He believes that the blind spot of big companies is not that they cannot afford computing power, but that they cannot understand that the organization itself is the biggest liability.
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Marc Andreessen: The Cognition Gap Between AI-Native Startups and Giants Is Unprecedented
In a conversation, Marc Andreessen said the gap in understanding of AI capabilities between AI-native startups and traditional giants is the largest he has ever seen, with almost no industry as an exception. He believes AI capabilities are improving rapidly week by week, and that a large number of industries will be reshuffled in a more fundamental way, with founders not limiting themselves to being software, hardware, or AI companies. He also cautioned that a generational gap in cognition does not equal short-term financial performance, and AI-native teams still have to face tests of customer retention and cash flow.