Garry Tan: "Personal AGI Is How You Stay Under Your Own Power"

Personal AGI represents a fundamental shift in how individuals achieve cognitive leverage by transitioning from consuming corporate-owned AI products to building owned, context-rich agentic systems. By treating one's life history—emails, notes, and projects—as a proprietary library, individuals can create "skill files" that automate complex tasks and compound productivity over time. This approach replaces the traditional reliance on large teams or institutional permission with a self-directed, founder-first model of operation. Drawing parallels to the life of philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who prioritized truth and independent creation despite external pressures, this framework emphasizes that intelligence should be an asset under one's own control. Ultimately, the integration of latent model intelligence with deterministic, user-owned infrastructure allows a single person to operate at a scale previously reserved for entire organizations, effectively enabling individuals to execute high-level work without intermediaries.