HostBuddy

Bite sized conversations between users and sellers over Text, Voice and smart devices.

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Try out AI Teams Retail/Restaurant brands: https://t.co/t5RBEZxh7y

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@sama @sama congrats, but be specific - is it like GPU for pre-training or ASIC for matrix multiplication.

Where are you planning to use?

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@patrickc Agent Studio is our answer to moving beyond the TUI. We built Buddy as a 'deep agent' for commerce infrastructure — Owner sets the loop (e.g., increase revenue by 10%), equip it with skills (sales, marketing) and tools (like Stripe APIs), and it runs autonomously. It acts as the 'hands' to recover no-shows, upgrade regulars to members, and directly increase revenue. Here is a short demo: https://t.co/HSHMlUMGKS

(Also coming soon as a Stripe App!) @StripeDev

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I love agentic coding harnesses, but they shouldn't be primarily terminal-based. The terminal is great for quick and precise commands, but information density is extremely low and UI affordances are minimal. Maybe provision of TUIs is worthwhile for occasional use (when establishing a tunnel is too annoying, or something), but it feels very strange for this to be the default modality. It took a long time for dynamic language REPLs to break out of the terminal (Jupyter notebooks and similar); I hope we don't have to wait as long for the harnesses.

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@VentureBeat @mmarshall 👍

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@twistartups @Jason @wilsonsonsini Amazing how you juggle this on top of Summit 👏

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@Scobleizer @Broadcom @swyx There is nothing fundamentally new about MCP, there was CORBA decades ago- for linking external tools/data

Only new thing is transformers (self-attention) and scaling laws. Looks like a great event to attend.

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@SaeedAmidi @PlugandPlayTC Glad to see #AI thriving in #SanJoseCA!
As a local @PlugandPlayTC @MattMahanSJ please keep going at full speed!!

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Thousands of AI Agents for your brand - signup @ https://t.co/t5RBEZxh7y

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@QSRmagazine Complement apps with conversations over text & phone calls. Ty out the number below for a live call with HostBuddy Voice AI.

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pricing shows up on second page of the post like here. What are you seeing in this sector.

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Here is pricing for our AI Workforce - https://t.co/q0QI0oTOBY make it affordable and easy to try, 1$/day but metered 100 msgs or calls a month.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The 4 Pricing Models for Agents

1. Price by Labor: "we'll charge 20% of what you're paying a human"
2. Price by Outcome: "we'll charge 20% of the revenue it generates"
3. Price by Cost: "we'll charge 20% over how much we pay for the tokens"
4. Price by Seat: "we'll charge $20/user/mo"

3 is the worst for business, 4 is good for productivity tools, 2 for sales tools and 1 for automation. Doesn't cover all, but is a decent starting point.

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https://t.co/ODE73dHOvz

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Why only text? You can order food/drinks via text, and goes directly to leading POS systems. @brokcm@jack

https://t.co/y9ThgMQ6uu

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I’ve never been more thankful to be an iPhone user.

Due to the lack of cell service, EVERYONE in Asheville NC right now on iOS 18 has been able to get messages out and in with the Satellite messaging feature.

This is literally saving lives @Apple.

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@gjain checkout https://t.co/6ayz7VzekS and try first-hand one of our agents. We are building AI powered teams for brands.

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@sequoia What an extraordinary effort by @dougleone in making ServiceNow what it is today.

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iPhones will soon text via satellite via @techcrunch

Thank you @apple - VirtualHost for your fav restaurant is just a text away. https://t.co/XFdXwFcHkk

@clovercommerce @nhglass @anthonyha @square @ToastTab

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@Jason @DavidSacks This looks like pain & suffering to me 😀

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@vkhosla VC is a betting game, entrepreneurs suffer to keep their baby alive and thrive. Jensen is man in the arena, he doesn't have to work this hard. Hope he goes beyond GPUs to build humanoids, and figure out remaining parts.

Compare this to @Google founders who simply disappeared,

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On the +ve side, We can transition from an app-centric world into a conversational one across modalities.

Check out our AI agent for Square sellers. Bringing fast, bite-sized conversations into commerce will create tiktok like spontaneity and discovery. https://t.co/AtIWVZtoiM @brockm @Square

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@TechCrunch @anthonyha good to see you back, great content under a minute.