Animoca’s Yat Siu Warns $900B Ad Industry Faces Collapse as AI Agents Take Over Discovery
The post Animoca’s Yat Siu Warns $900B Ad Industry Faces Collapse as AI Agents Take Over Discovery appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways Animoca Brands launched a $10M fund targeting early-stage agentic AI, calling the sector as early as OpenAI circa 2020. Yat Siu says the $900B advertising industry will shift to AI agents, routing discovery value to blockchain networks. Siu projects 1,000x productivity gains and advises retail investors to build wide baskets across 50 to 70 AI companies. Yat Siu Says AI Productivity Gains Are 1,000x, Tells Retail Investors to Build Wide Baskets Now Speaking in Miami on The David Lin Report with David Lin and Bonnie Blockchain, Siu described the current state of agentic AI as comparable to seed-stage investing in OpenAI or Anthropic roughly five years ago. He told investors to act accordingly. “The productivity growth in AI is literally a 1,000x,” Siu said. “So we think the return profile is going to be a thousand-x amongst sort of the top