Shaan Puri: The next major wave of AI applications will be multiplayer
Shaan Puri · The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok · Oct 3, 2025 · at 5:07
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss the evolution of AI software products, recounting investor Matt Mazzeo's thesis on the transition from single-player tools to collaborative networks.
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“Every AI tool right now is single player. He's like, ChatGPT is just a tool you use yourself, and same thing with the image creators, and same thing with almost all of the tools are still single player, but the internet has showed us that, like, all the most powerful apps, they're multiplayer, the things you do with other people, whether it was Facebook and social networking, whether it was Uber connecting with drivers, or Airbnb connecting with other people, Slack, where you chat with your teammates, like, it's crazy that none of the AI tools are really multiplayer today, and so he's like, I'm waiting for that, like, that's The next wave, that's the big thing.”
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