With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox

When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer earlier this month told me she was finally ready to unveil Dazzle, the personal AI assistant that raised an $8 million seed round last December, I couldn’t help but wonder if she’s playing copycat to Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and the wave of similar tools that have flooded the market over the past month.

But when Mayer finally gave me a demo, Dazzle proved it’s taking a different approach. Instead of building context about you…