Ying Yang

As AGI becomes more capable, where can vertical AI products build a lasting advantage? Drawing on her work in the beauty industry, Ying Yang distinguishes general models' decoding abilities from the work of encoding tacit industry knowledge, expert judgment and consumer needs into usable rules and data. She traces a bottom-up product path from consumer decision support to small brands, large brands and the upstream supply chain, exploring how AI can lower transaction costs and turn real demand into growth.