According to CoinMeta, Paul Graham believes that Amazon's blockade of AI shopping proxies provides startups with the best opportunity since 1994. He points out that consumers want to use AI proxies for shopping, and Amazon's ban reflects this demand. Although Amazon claims that unauthorized proxies pose a threat to customer data and account security, Graham thinks that consumers will increasingly prefer to let AI proxies do their shopping for them. He says that Amazon's ban is the first time startups have had such an opportunity to create competitors. Tesla CEO Elon Musk agrees, saying, "Indeed." In addition, Amazon has also cut off the Meta Muse AI proxies on the grounds that they failed to comply with terms of use. Amazon is also facing competition from Google and OpenAI's AI shopping proxies.