2025 Is the Year of the AI App

Executives at software vendors and chief information officers who buy software are starting to agree on one thing: Artificial intelligence models are becoming far less important than the apps that harness them. 

Many prominent AI apps, including GitHub Copilot, Perplexity search, and Cursor’s coding assistant, previously relied almost entirely on OpenAI but now use models from multiple providers, either because the models are roughly equivalent or because they complement one another.