Will personal AI agents fail in China? Closed super-app ecosystems, not model smarts, are the wall
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-29
A debate on personal AI agents in China: milesmazy argues they're doomed because super-apps like Meituan won't open their payment/data moats—citing Doubao phone's lack of third-party app access and Amazon blocking Meta's checkout. sujingshen pushes back: agents can still grow if they avoid payments and traffic distribution; the bottleneck is ecosystem openness, not model intelligence.
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