Marissa Mayer shows off Dazzle by auto-generating a birthday slide for her twin daughters
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-27
Former Yahoo CEO and Dazzle founder Marissa Mayer shared context behind a New York Times anecdote: she pasted her twin daughters' 4th-grade teachers' birthday-slide request into Dazzle's early prototype to test its limits, since most facial recognition can't even tell her identical twins apart.
She says she wasn't overwhelmed by the task — she wanted to see what deeper threads the AI could find, arguing that summing up a child in a few bullets feels laughably limiting. The shared slide shows remarkably personalized output, referencing inventions like a "snake de-venomier," a sand cat playground, Broadway, ballet, and the twins' science fair project. Mayer notes user engagement has been terrific in the product's early days.
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