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Rauch: Dedicated interfaces and URLs let startups outcompete AI giants
“What I find is that some products are so important or some capabilities are so important that they always deserve their unique entry point. Their unique URL, their unique interface dedicated to that problem, and you might actually outcompete the giants in thin…”
Rauch: Vercel aims to turn v0 code into editable remote components
“We have the ambition that whatever you vibe code in V zero can actually become what we call remote components. Imagine prompting on a slice of a website. And enabling anyone in your team or organization to do this.”
Rauch: The best AI products combine multiple models rather than relying on one
“People sometimes fear that like the one model is going to take all the jobs. In reality, most cool things happen when you combine models, combine ideas, market it well, focus it well, create easy interfaces, et cetera.”
Rauch: Pitch enterprise customers with live product rather than slide decks
“So, and by the way, funny little behind the scenes thing, this is how I pitch product. We have a lot of huge enterprises using vZero. Yesterday I met with one of the world's largest companies. They came to the office and I basically did a version of this. So i…”
Rauch: Vercel AI Gateway is growing exponentially
“We're launching a new product or we launched, which is already kind of growing sort of exponentially. It's called the AI gateway.”
Rauch: High token demand leaves many AI model providers out of capacity
“Because of the insane demand for AI tokens, a lot of model providers are unreliable or out of capacity.”
Rauch predicts every future camera photo will process through an AI model
“I believe that in the future cameras will be inputs or what do you take with a camera will be an input, not an output. And why is it going to be an input? Because every photo will go through an LLM or an AI model.”
Rauch: Great product design requires ruthlessly deleting buttons and links
“If I could actually give one lasting piece of advice to everybody, including my own team is always in myself, it's always delete, delete, delete, delete. There should be as few buttons, links, et cetera, as possible on, on any given product.”
Rauch: Vercel is soon launching a v0 mobile app
“We're soon going to launch the VZero mobile app. You're going to be able to create apps like this on the go. And we're actually putting a lot of work into the model, the context, et cetera, to make them really good on mobile devices out of the box.”
Rauch: Forms are the most underrated fundamental primitive of the internet
“Well, forms I think are the most underrated. Like fundamental particle of the internet, right? Like nothing happens unless like the most interesting thing of the internet is capturing input from somebody.”
Rauch: Future of AI chat is intertwining conversation with rich UI
“I believe the future of this AI conversational interface is going to be this intertwining of chat and rich UI components.”
Rauch: The best data visualizations are dynamic, not rigid standard charts
“The best data visualizations on the planet are not rigid. They're not part of like the line chart, the pie chart, et cetera. They might have elements of navigation, et cetera.”