The a16z Show Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?
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Dec 29, 2025 
In this insightful discussion, Justine Moore, a consumer investor focused on AI product design, emphasizes the contrasting approaches of Google and OpenAI in launching consumer products. Anish Acharya dives into advancements in image and video realism, highlighting remaining challenges in model reasoning. Bryan Kim discusses the nuances of product design that influence user engagement, particularly in how Gemini's onboarding could reshape adoption. The panel forecasts an exciting 2026 for consumer AI, emphasizing the potential for innovative startups and multimodal applications.
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Use Connectors For Proactive Assistance
- Invest in connectors to ingest user data (email, calendar, docs) to enable proactive, personalized AI helpers.
- Test and improve reliability before claiming workspace ownership, since current connectors can be flaky.
Workflow UX Wins Attention
- Perplexity's Comet browser showed agentic workflows and scheduled automations outperform naive launches.
- Thoughtful workflow UX can overcome distribution disadvantages versus larger incumbents.
Top Creative Models Drive Discovery
- Best-in-class image/video models create persistent demand across pro and consumer users.
- Viral creative trends around top models drive discovery and product downloads outside a single dominant assistant.