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48 Hours Inside the Startup Building the World’s First On-Device AGI

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SteveguestDiv GargguestNamanguest

Nov 9, 202625mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released: November 9, 2026
Duration: 25m
Channel: EO Studio
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Thanks to Wispr Flow for sponsoring this video! Wispr Flow's Notetaker captures every call and gives you a clean summary and to-do list the moment it ends. Try it free: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/eo-yt Div Garg dropped out of his Stanford PhD and turned down a million-dollar offer from OpenAI to build AGI Inc. His bet is that everyone should have a personal AI like Jarvis from Iron Man, one that runs on your own phone, where you own the model and the data. In this episode of ODDS, we go inside AGI Inc. in San Francisco, where an AI agent orders Chipotle on DoorDash hands-free and new hires work on production code from day one. Div tells us how he and two friends started Stanford's first course on transformers, how Geoffrey Hinton said yes in 10 minutes, and why frontier labs won't ship an AI that runs on your own device. His co-founders Steve and Naman explain why trust and on-device AI go together, and the team shares why they hire slow and fire fast. If you're into AI agents, on-device AI, or founders who walk away from a sure thing to build against the odds, this one is for you. ▀▀▀ 00:00 Your Own Jarvis on Your Phone 01:31 Day One at AGI Inc. 02:51 Starting Stanford's First Transformers Course 04:10 Cold-Emailing Geoffrey Hinton 04:57 Turning Down $1M From OpenAI 06:01 Why Trust Comes Before Capability 07:25 How the Agent Controls Your Phone 08:26 The Hard Part: Running It On Device 09:05 Why Frontier Labs Won't Ship This 09:39 Wispr Flow Notetaker 10:41 An AI Your Grandmother Can Use 11:13 Live Demo: Ordering Chipotle Hands-Free 12:33 Finding Customers at a Music Festival 14:48 Demo Isn't a Product 16:10 Why 90% Accuracy Isn't Enough 16:53 A Trial Week of Real Production Code 19:06 Why the Team Works Late Into the Night 20:54 Why Host Events in the Age of AI Slop 21:46 The Mini Phone Experiment 23:05 Hire Slow, Fire Fast 23:37 Billions of Personal AI Models 24:42 Less Screen Time, More Real Life ▀▀▀ ODDS is a startup documentary series for founders who defy the odds. We go inside a startup to see how a crazy idea becomes a real company. Visit ODDS website : https://odds.eo.team Follow EO: https://www.youtube.com/@eoglobal?sub_confirmation=1 Magazine: https://www.eomag.io Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eo.build/ X: https://x.com/eo_build Business inquiries: partner@eoeoeo.net #AI #Startup #ODDS

SPEAKERS

Steve
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Co-founder at AGI Inc., focused on building an on-device AI agent with privacy-first execution and edge partnerships.
Div Garg
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Founder and CEO of AGI Inc., building on-device personal AI agents; background includes Cornell and Stanford research/PhD track.
Naman
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Co-founder at AGI Inc. leading engineering and research on the agent stack and on-device inference.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of EO Studio, featuring Steve and Div Garg, 48 Hours Inside the Startup Building the World’s First On-Device AGI explores Building an on-device AI agent that controls your phone privately Div Garg and the AGI Inc. team describe building a truly personal AI that can control a phone and use apps on a user’s behalf, with the long-term aim of running across multiple device types.

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