Mayer's new assistant Dazzle builds your profile from photos alone
A new route in the personal-assistant race: no email access, photos only — accuracy and privacy remain unproven.
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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has demoed Dazzle, a personal AI assistant that takes no context from email or calendars and instead analyzes your phone's camera roll to infer hobbies, food and travel preferences.
It splits into two uses: scanning recent photos for immediate tasks, like populating a calendar from an event flyer, or mining the whole library for vacation and gift ideas. In TechCrunch's hands-on test it had blind spots — it suggested Sicily from a trip four years ago but forgot the reporter's daughter already knows how to roller-skate.
The company raised an $8 million seed round last December, and Mayer says it discards information the AI flags as sensitive. Her previous photo-sharing product, Shine, shut down after failing to attract usage.