“We Don’t Need 5,000 People to Build AI” Explains the Duo Behind Writer’s Rise to Enterprise AI Stardom

From a chance Twitter connection to a $1.9 billion valuation, Writer's path to becoming a major force in enterprise AI reflects both the rapid evolution of language technology and the power of focused innovation. The company, which recently secured $200 million in Series C funding, has come a long way from its origins in machine translation. A Twitter Connection That Changed Everything Over a decade ago, in a small Twitter community of computer scientists in Dubai, May Habib noticed an intriguing post about project algorithms and Java. The author was Waseem AlShikh, a Syrian developer who had taught himself English while pursuing computer science in Lebanon. "I can't waste two years studying just language," Waseem recalls of his college days. "Not my thing. I can't do it. I want t