Eugenia Kuyda

13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 5, 2025 by Eugenia Kuyda · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kuyda: Building screenless AI hardware is a major mistake
“There's a lot of people trying to build voice only devices. In my case, completely wrong. Like it can be a fantastic extra way to interact with the computer, but every single Alexa right now is, like, 75% of them are being shipped with the screen. Because even…”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 47:48 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kuyda: Modern video platforms prioritize polished commercial content over friends
“Right now, a lot of the video platforms are very polished and very commercial. You don't even see your friends anymore. You don't see that much weird content. You just see very curated, polished stuff.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 33:18 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kuyda: Fully original app creators on Wabi will stay under 10%
“I'd say like fully kind of original creators probably still under 10%”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 10:20 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Kuyda: Software creation will shift to user-generated mini-apps
“And so I think the same will happen with software. Right now we're Kind of stuck in this world where are these few apps developed by professional developers? And then eventually, of course, we're going to move on to this new world where apps are built by all o…”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 4:47 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025
Disclosure
Kuyda: Replika owned hundreds of .ai domains and let them expire
“We also owned like hundreds of .AI domains, which I just let expire because I felt like, no one wants them.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 38:51 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Kuyda: Next-gen AI hardware will be local AI smartphones, not voice gadgets
“I do believe that the AI device is not about a voice driven thing. It's more about building this AI first operating system. Having all the models run locally as well. I think that there's a lot in that, like building truly an AI first smartphone and, you know,…”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 49:03 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kuyda: AI should not be restricted to smartphone apps
“Right now, AI is just an app on your phone. It should not be that way.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025
Disclosure
Kuyda bet Replika on dialogue language models in 2015
“When we saw that in August, 2015, we just basically put all of our bet everything we had at the company on building those models. We said, okay, well, this is it. This is right around the corner. We need to really focus on building these language models, getti…”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 36:09 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kuyda: Driving AI via paragraph text prompts is worse than MS-DOS
“We pass around these text prompts, which is almost like Microsoft DOS commands, but worse, because at least the commands were, it was like sort of like you could learn them. There were a few, whatever, like they were short, they weren't that long. And now are …”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 24:18 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kuyda: Shareable mini-apps will replace raw text prompts in AI creation
“Instead of that, if you could just quickly, you know, click on the link in comments on TikTok and open a mini app Where everything's already set up for you, just add a photo. And you can see examples, you can choose different styles and this and that, and then…”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 25:07 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Kuyda: Software will evolve from fixed apps into interactive content
“I do think we'll see just a completely different type of software, not just apps, not just stale fix apps, but more content, community build community starters, conversation starters, and just fun little toys.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 30:08 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
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Kuyda: Future OSs will dynamically generate context-aware, personalized apps
“So if you think about it, the operating system of the future, you open it up and you see your regular popular apps you use all the time. Maybe it's X, maybe it's Instagram, whatever it is. And then you see maybe some cool apps that you discovered your friend, …”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 5:07 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kuyda: AI builders wrongly view voice as the main interface
“There's a huge mind trap that exists among builders in the space where they somehow think that voice is the main interface.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 0:12 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
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