@levie: The monetization potential of personal agents that are transacting on your behalf you is quite significant. If you imag…
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The article discusses the significant monetization potential of personal AI agents that can handle complex tasks, leading to increased commerce and new opportunities for agent providers and service layers.
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The monetization potential of personal agents that are transacting on your behalf you is quite significant.
If you imagine agents that are perfectly capable of handling an arbitrarily complex task end to end, then eventually a substantial amount of commerce inevitably goes through them.
You’ll start by slinging your daily simple and annoying tasks at the agent. Then as people get used to it, they’ll just start to throw more complex tasks at the agent, ultimately leading to even more spend through these systems than what they were doing before. If you can bring down the friction for commerce and services, then you end up spending even more.
This thus creates a ton of opportunity for the agent providers (Muse, etc.), but also completely new opportunities to build the layer that the agents want to interact with (commerce, local, b2b services, etc.). Win/win for multiple layers.
Nicolas Bustamante (@nicbstme): It’s funny, Meta went from having my Instagram and WhatsApp data to now having access to my email, calendar, DoorDash, Amazon and pretty much everything.
In the last 24 hours, it bought me socks, ordered my Whole Foods groceries, booked a cleaning service and got me a burger for
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