OpenAI's public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 is widely viewed as the event that kicked off the generative AI boom, which remains the dominant theme in the tech industry almost three years later.

Notion jumped on the bandwagon early.

Two weeks before ChatGPT hit the market, the productivity software startup announced its own artificial intelligence feature using an OpenAI model. Notion AI was designed to be a "writing assistant" that could help a user with brainstorming, editing and summarizing, the company said.

"We're at an important inflection point," CEO Ivan Zhao wrote in a blog post at the time. "The potential of artificial intelligence has grown exponentially, and will continue to grow."

The AI wave has pushed Notion past $500 million in annualized revenue, the company no

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