Citation Bureau
Vol. I
No. 427
XXI SEPTEMBER MMXXVI

LLM-based ad products will compete almost exclusively with Google's search ads business, not with discovery-oriented ad platforms.

The case

LLM-based ad products will almost exclusively compete with Google's search ads business rather than discovery-oriented ad businesses.

“Today you can go to a large language model and close the loop on that same thing. So that ads model is almost going to exclusively compete with the Google search business.”
Adam Foroughi · 20 Sep 2026

Modern ad marketplace and auction design is an essentially solved problem, and OpenAI is speedrunning all of its components.

“What drives a modern ads marketplace and auction is essentially like a solved problem and OpenAI is speedrunning all of the components of that.”
Peter Sellis · 20 Sep 2026
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