Meta's consumer AI strategy mocked as 'bargain hunting and fluffy AI pets' — and that's why it wins
menhguin · x · 2026-09-25
Chris Bakke argues Meta will keep winning consumer AI because it focuses on what ordinary users care about: using AI to negotiate a Peloton deal on Marketplace and playful AI characters on Meta devices — not asking consumers to run open-weight models on 'Chinese orchestration architectures' while fretting about job loss and doom scenarios.
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