Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
The episode reframes the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) not as a singular, external event, but as a personal, diffused capability—personal AGI—that individuals can build and own today using AI agents, context, and automation. The speaker argues that true leverage lies no
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