Parallel Invention

While working in tech in 2026 means every conversation is about AI, these days I find myself often talking to friends and colleagues about the ways in which the tech industry has been reborn in this new age of generative AI. After decades of incremental innovation - faster, smaller, smarter - we’re in a fantastic moment of invention. Novel solutions that reimagine our fundamental applications of technology are poised to replace the way we fundamentally think about what technology is, what it does for us, and what we do with it.

The age of generative AI is being defined by technical feasibility advancing at the velocity of the ideas driving its innovation, and the speed of invention is hard to overstate.

In early September, Genuix previewed a generative UI demo that introduced a novel way to interact with AI. Our first reference application was released less than two months later - a day after Google shared their own. Now, generative UI is emerging as a fundamental building block for interacting with AI.

When innovation moves so fast, parallel invention abounds. It is uncanny how often the advances and innovations we make with Genuix are reflected in real time back at us through headlines from the Big Five. In the expired age of incremental innovation - a time of relative stagnation punctuated by minor updates and upgrades - parallel invention may have been defeat. Today, it is acceleration.

This shift in how we think about innovation is profound. While the industry collectively moves forward at this accelerated pace, the currency of differentiation is in the ability to deliver value at the edge of emerging tech. Our novel opportunity is to not only to invent or adopt, but to operationalize this rapid, continuous innovation.