Phan: AI models will commoditize, making UX the primary daily differentiator
Trung Phan · Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok · Mar 9, 2023 · at 31:31
Trung Phan discusses why he built Barely AI as a convenience-focused interface layer on top of third-party large language models.
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“If the underlying models are going to be largely commoditized because every browser will have it, like every productivity tool will have it is People will be like, okay, well, which one will I actually use every day because it's convenient.”
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