He Built Uber Eats to $25B, Now He's Pushing AI Beyond Chat | Stephen Chau

My guest today is Stephen Chau.Stephen is the co-founder of Cove,
a Sequoia-backed startup that lets you interact with AI through a
ground-breaking visual interface instead of chat. We had a great
chat about why the future of AI is generative UI, how to build
great AI products, and how he scaled Uber Eats from $0 to
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when you attend.Timestamps: (00:00) The future of AI is
generative UI


(01:53) Demoing Cove's visual AI interface for trip planning


(05:02) Beyond chatbots: Co-creating with AI in a natural way


(09:01) Context-aware AI that updates content automatically


(11:11) Putting AI to the test to list premium Japanese snacks


(14:02) Building AI apps directly within your workspace


(16:35) Demoing real world use cases for visual AI interfaces


(27:39) Generative UI and just-in-time AI apps


(31:16) Why chatbots are the "DOS stage" of AI interfaces


(45:44) The secret to building Uber Eats to $25B


(54:51) The best way to build your AI product senseGet the
takeaways:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/he-built-uber-eats-now-pushing-ai-beyond-chat-stephen-chauWhere
to find Stephen:LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenchau/Website: https://cove.ai/
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