Mavericks, Inc., the company behind advanced AI product development, has announced that its generative AI newsletter “Mavericks AI News” has passed 90,000 subscribers. As one of Japan’s largest1 newsletters dedicated to generative AI, it condenses the practical knowledge built up on the front line of AI product development and explains the latest AI developments every Monday. The most recent issue, sent on April 20, covered Anthropic’s new design AI agent “Claude Design” and OpenAI’s major update to “Codex,” with commentary from the perspective of practical business use.
”Mavericks AI News,” Japan’s most subscribed newsletter of its kind, passes 90,000 readers
“Mavericks AI News” has now passed 90,000 subscribers. It has reached one of the largest scales for a Japanese newsletter focused on generative AI, and many business people use it in their day-to-day work.
Mavericks, Inc. is a Japanese startup that offers the generative AI product NoLang. In roughly a year and a half since launch, NoLang has passed 200,000 registered users and has been adopted by more than 100 corporate customers, and the team runs its own product every day on the front line of AI-driven development. The generative AI industry changes extremely fast: what can generative AI do right now, which AI services are drawing attention in the market, and what kind of AI will appear next. A team that keeps up with product development at the leading edge selects the most important items and sends the newsletter every Monday, which makes it the recommended way for busy business people to keep up with generative AI news.
The newsletter uses the perspective that comes from standing on the front line of AI product development every day to select information that is substantive and directly useful at work. It goes beyond simply introducing technology: the aim is to write so that even readers with no prior AI knowledge can picture concretely how they could use something starting tomorrow. Each item of generative AI news comes with original commentary grounded in specialist knowledge of AI product development.
Subscribe here (in Japanese)Two problems in the generative AI era: gathering information and putting it to work
Generative AI can transform how business is done, and it keeps evolving at a startling pace. New tools and use cases are announced one after another, and how quickly a company can absorb them and put them into practice now directly affects its competitiveness.
This rapid change also brings a serious threat. Eighty-one percent of companies feel it is difficult to keep up with the speed of change2, and in a survey of the general public, 58% answered that AI is “not trustworthy”3, so social distrust of AI is also spreading.
Information about AI is growing in both volume and speed beyond what people can follow, and, as that distrust shows, its quality and reliability vary widely. Distrust of AI raises the cost of judging whether a given piece of information is true, and as a result many business people face exhaustion from information overload and the risk of missing what actually matters.
“Mavericks AI News” answers these problems with first-hand information and a practitioner’s sense that come from developing and operating AI products directly, offering a substantive point of view that does not drift with surface-level trends. Passing 90,000 subscribers is a sign that this editorial policy has support from business readers.
Highlights from this week’s issue, sent on April 20
Here is a brief look at the topics covered in the latest issue, sent on April 20.
Feature 1: “Claude Design,” the most complete design AI agent available today
“Claude Design,” announced by Anthropic on April 17, is a platform that generates and edits any design that can be expressed in HTML — websites, prototypes, slides, video — in a single tool. Users can check and edit the generated design on the spot without opening developer tools such as a terminal or VSCode, and it supports export to PDF, PPTX, Canvas, and Claude Code.
Feature 2: Design features found only in Claude Design
Claude Design includes a dedicated mode that follows the standard design workflow of the industry (wireframe to mockup), a “Tweaks” feature for immediately exploring variations of theme color, font, and layout, and a “design system” feature that organizes brand guidelines automatically. It can also read Figma files and source code, so it can generate designs that reflect the context of an existing brand. The issue considers what it makes possible for designers and engineers alike, from an implementation point of view.
Feature 3: OpenAI ships a major Codex update — can it answer Claude Code?
On April 16, OpenAI substantially upgraded its AI agent “Codex.” It added a “computer use” feature that operates a PC on the user’s behalf (MacOS only) and a new image generation model created by integrating ChatGPT’s image generation (with better accuracy when rendering Japanese text). Codex is said to handle almost any business task, yet questions remain about its competitive advantage compared with Claude Code. The issue sets out where Codex fits in practical work and considers its current position against Claude Code.
What comes next
As a product-out generative AI startup, Mavericks, Inc. sees returning the knowledge gained from its own advanced product development to society as an important part of its mission.
Through “Mavericks AI News,” the company will continue to publish reliable, practical information for every business person, developer, and digital transformation lead working to open up the AI era.
