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Taylor: AI will yield a trillion-dollar consumer giant and 10+ public companies
“We will look back and laugh at some of the excess, but I'm confident we will have, you know, a brand defining and likely trillion dollar consumer company come out of this. 10 plus enterprise software companies that are enduring, you know, public companies comi…”
Bret Taylor: Commercial AI market will mirror cloud software structure
“I actually think the AI market commercially will play out like the cloud market did over the past 20 years.”
Taylor: Enterprise spending on AI professional services will drop as software matures
“I think there's probably some short term professional services spend that reflects the lack of the maturity of the AI applications market right now. You know, and I think that when there are solutions like Sierra and others for specific domains available, you …”
Taylor: AI progress won't stall because data, compute, and algorithms alternate bottlenecks
“In any one of those, you could probably make a very rational intellectual case that we're gonna hit a wall, but then you have the two others. And I don't think you can make the case for all three that they're all coming up on a wall. And I think like any big s…”
Bret Taylor: AI inference costs will decrease following Moore's Law trajectory
“I'm incredibly optimistic that just the cost of running AI will could probably track something like Moore's law.”
Bret Taylor: Consolidation ahead for AI pre-training companies
“I think we'll see consolidation of companies pre-training their own models you know, and I think that the cost structure of the tools and applications companies are different and perhaps more sustainable.”
Taylor: Conversational AI will replace web and app clicks within five years
“And as a consequence, you know, I think that, you know, if you fast forward four or five years, when you're interacting with any of the consumer brands, you work with your insurance company, your phone company a car rental company, you will probably be having …”
Taylor: Having an AI agent will be essential by 2025
“We like to say like in 1995, the way you existed digitally as a business to have a website in 20, 25, the way you will exist digitally is to have an AI agent.”
Bret Taylor: Conversational AI will become the dominant computer interface
“And my thesis is just like touch screens have come to dominate Our experience with computers because of convenience, you can have a conversation in so many different places. You don't need an instruction manual. I think it will be the main way we work with com…”
Taylor: Smartphones will remain the primary interface for conversational AI
“So in the short term, my intuition is that the combination of a smartphone with Ray-Ban glasses or AirPods or the like probably, you know, meaning you might need to look at your screen less than you do today. But my intuition is because of the prevalence of sm…”
Taylor: Defining AI companies will be applications, not base models
“The focus on hardware and models and not enough focus on the applications of AI. I think many of the defining companies in AI will be delivering consumer and business solutions that happen to be powered by AI, not just the models themselves.”
Taylor: Agent-native hardware requires consumer software experiences to lead first
“I have a sense that we will, it will take a little while to see agent native consumer experiences and agent native devices. And the hard part about particularly consumer electronics is you kind of need the consumer experiences to lead a little bit, to have the…”
Taylor: AI will create new job roles like agent engineers and AI architects
“We think that there's the role of an agent engineer who builds these agents on their platform. We think there's a role of an agent AI architect, who's a customer experience leader, whose job is to do the conversation design and shape The behavior of these agen…”