Model Is the Product: Lessons from Search and RecSys for Personal Agents

Hanchung Lee pushes back on the idea that surfaces are the moat for agents, arguing that for personal agents the model itself is the product, and that classic search and recommender system techniques can be directly transferred.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 2 related posts

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