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# Why AI's Next Frontier Moves Beyond Text and Code
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/why-ais-next-frontier-moves-beyond-text-and-code/
- Published: 2026-04-15T16:04:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-15T16:04:02.000Z
- Description: The article identifies a gap in AI deployment: language models dominate production systems, but the economic value accumulates in automating physical tasks—manufacturing, logistics, robotics—where text-based AI has limited application.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, AI & ML

Source: [a16z](https://open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/frontier-systems-for-the-physical)

The article identifies a gap in AI deployment: language models dominate production systems, but the economic value accumulates in automating physical tasks—manufacturing, logistics, robotics—where text-based AI has limited application. This requires different architectures (multimodal systems, embodied learning, real-time reasoning) and opens space for new vendors to compete outside the LLM moat OpenAI and Anthropic have built. Companies that crack reliable physical-world automation will capture far more industrial spending than those optimizing chatbot inference speeds.