McMaster: AI startups cannot succeed as standalone sandboxed mobile apps
Kurt McMaster · a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:05
Cyanogen CEO Kurt McMaster discusses why machine learning and AI startups fail when restricted to basic app sandboxes on iOS and Android without system kernel access.
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“These kinds of services can't really exist as applications. A, they don't get any traction. Anything that requires machine learning and AI requires massive user bases to start to build out their data sets so that they get all the more powerful, et cetera. So what happens is you have these great minds coming together to create some really interesting technologies that don't have access to the core platform that can allow them to scale to the point where they actually become meaningful, right? And when they're locked out of that core system they just really have no hope to thrive.”
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