The goal is to make Uber so useful that it becomes your default relationship for getting around and getting things done in the real world. And I think the super-app vision, where you can order food, get a ride, get a package delivered, book a flight — all from one place — is something that's very natural for consumers, because they don't want to have 15 different apps. They want one trusted relationship.
I actually think the Waymo relationship is a really good example of how we want to work with AV companies. We want to be the demand side. We want to be the platform. We don't want to own the cars, we don't want to maintain the cars, we don't want to manufacture the cars. We want to be the operating system on top of which AV companies operate.
For the first time, we have such a common infrastructure powering all of them with our Gemini models and the underlying AI infrastructure. So we are more able to, with intent, do things which cut across things.
1w ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
