Madrona Ventures · 9 October 2026 · Industry Analysis

Highlights From the 2026 IA40 Summit: Harnessing the Value of AI

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Madrona's IA40 Summit revealed AI's evolution from model-centric to system-centric: agents are deployed across software engineering, law, and commerce; infrastructure primitives (browsing, search, sandboxes) are crystallizing; security and accountability remain unresolved; and sustained value flows to context, data, and the layers around models rather than models themselves.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · AI Infrastructure · Enterprise Software

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