Daily AIO
02.26.2026
Busy day in AIO land!
1 - Profound raised $96m on a $1.2 billion+ valuation. Read their direct statement here. My take - the demand for AIO / SEO tools is exploding as more people realize that LLM traffic is overtaking search traffic from Google / Bing.
2 - Bing goes all in on AI / Chat GPT Integration. Similar to the 1990s browser wars, Microsoft is embedding Copilot / Chat GPT into everything (Edge, Office 365, Windows, etc). Don’t be surprised if Microsoft becomes the market leader in AI search volume just by it’s distribution power alone.
3 - 2.5 billion prompts are happening daily on Chat GPT alone. Yet, 96% less clicks happen from an LLM to a reference website than a Google search. Show’s the scale of LLM growth, but also the competitive challenge brands Fighting for traffic from the LLMs makes AIO a critical element for any marketing strategy.
