The tech battle to build your AI assistant
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The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life.
Key facts
- The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life
- For years, tech's "personal assistants" were little more than voice-controlled search boxes
- A consumer-agent race has erupted almost overnight, with startups and tech giants pursuing the same basic idea, persistent digital proxies that know your life
- The intrigue: OpenAI is expected to enter the market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw, a breakout hit among AI power users earlier this year, to "drive the next generation of personal agents
Summary
For years, tech's "personal assistants" were little more than voice-controlled search boxes. The model first took off in coding and other professional work. The intrigue: OpenAI is expected to enter the market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw, a breakout hit among AI power users earlier this year, to "drive the next generation of personal agents. A consumer-agent race has erupted almost overnight, with startups and tech giants pursuing the same basic idea, persistent digital proxies that know your life.