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Notion's product strategy is to be model-agnostic, positioning itself as the "Switzerland for models" to provide customers with access to the best models without vendor lock-in.
Notion's long-term vision for AI, conceived in 2022, was to create a general assistant capable of using all the tools within Notion that a human user has.
Notion recently launched a "custom agents" feature that allows users to create agents with specific permissions that can run autonomously in the background.
Notion launched its full agentic product, Notion.ai, in the fall of 2023 (August/September).
Notion rewrites its internal AI harness approximately every six months to adapt to the rapid evolution of AI models and technology.
Notion launched its first set of AI-powered product features in February 2023.
Notion launched its AI-powered Q&A feature, which provides answers grounded in a user's workspace, in October 2023.
Simon Last, co-founder of Notion, has not manually written code since the summer of 2023, instead relying on AI agents for all coding tasks.
Notion's core mission has shifted from being a tool for humans to perform work to being a platform for humans to manage agents that do the work.
Notion plans to integrate four different high-quality, low-cost Chinese language models into its platform.
Simon Last has personally run a single coding agent continuously for 13 days straight to work through a task list.
To improve agent usability, Notion developed an API that allows agents to interact with Notion databases using SQLite.