Garry Tan

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1,293 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

It doesn't look like a god. matched

It looks like infrastructure, a terminal window, a folder of markdown files, a job that finishes while you sleep. matched

Spread through everything, which is exactly where Spinoza told you to look. matched

AGI isn't arriving as an event. matched

It's arriving diffused as your agent, running on your context, doing your work. matched

I call it personal AGI, not artificial general intelligence for everyone all at once, general intelligence for one person. matched

You. matched

This was a dream of a great many people. matched

Vannevar Bush called it the Memex, a machine that would be an extension of yourself and your brain. matched

And I want to be precise about what I mean, because the words personal AI has already been captured by marketing departments. matched

I do not mean a chatbot you pay $20 a month to. matched

I do not mean a slightly better autocomplete. matched

I do not mean an assistant that knows your calendar and nothing else. matched

That's just a subscription you rent. matched

It's a corporate AGI you don't own. matched

It resets when you close the tab. matched

It knows what everyone else already knows. matched

And when the company behind it pivots, your so-called assistant gets a lobotomy on someone else's schedule. matched

Personal AGI is a different animal. matched

an agent that runs on your infrastructure, reads from a memory you own, executes procedures you wrote, and compounds. matched

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