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AI-Powered Consumer Products for 1 Billion People
Y Combinator· 2026-07-23 13:40
Every platform shift mints consumer giants. The web gave us Google and Airbnb. Mobile [music] gave us Instagram and DoorDash.AI is the biggest shift yet. And 3 years in, the only new icon on your home screen is ChatGPT. So, why do we think now is a great time to build AI-powered consumer products.Intelligence just got [music] good enough. You can treat an agent like a person. And it's about to get cheap enough, [music] too.Today, the magic can run a thousand dollars a month in tokens for each user. But that ...