Personal agent startups echo China's group-buying wars — trust is the real moat
zhyncs42 · x · 2026-10-07
Personal agents are proliferating — Muse, Instinct, Dots, Hark, Fo — echoing China's group-buying wars a decade ago, where hundreds of Groupon clones launched and only 2-3 survived. The author argues trust is the real moat when handing agents your calendar, accounts and data, and Apple could come out ahead given its privacy focus.
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