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a16z's Anish Acharya on why consumer AI is where the iPhone was in 2010, and the three reasons the biggest companies in the category haven't been built yet: "What's held us back is three things. One is that the models have been expensive, so if you want to do a free-to-use product, that hasn't been easy." "The second is that we've kind of had an interface problem. Chat makes sense if you're the highest agency person in the world, which is Elon and Sam. But for the average consumer, their…
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanSep 6
The "permanent underclass" is a dark fantasy Silicon Valley keeps telling itself. @illscience (GP at @a16z) points out that by almost every measure, things have never been better, and the job-loss story hasn’t played out as people thought. Radiologists have been “cooked” for 20 years and demand keeps rising. Open engineering roles are at all-time highs. And unlike the mobile era’s winner-take-all markets, every layer of the AI stack has ~20 strong competitors. We discuss: 🔸 Why you don’t need to be chronically online to keep up 🔸 The "/loop make me happier" opportunity in AI 🔸 Why every company is becoming a series of loops 🔸 Why moats are discovered, not designed 🔸 What's the Birkin bag version of your product? Listen now 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdIyXiq2DTY
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