OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Grok and half of Silicon Valley are now building the exact same product: one assistant that runs your entire digital life. Axios calls it the next platform war — and for once the hype is earned, because the winner doesn't get an app. It gets you: your inbox, your calendar, your purchases, all of it.
Every big lab, lined up at the same keyboard. The products barely differ — the ambition is identical: be the one assistant you never close.
The contenders are the usual suspects — ChatGPT, Meta's AI, Siri's long-promised glow-up, Grok — plus two startups the Valley can't stop talking about: Muse and Instinct, agents people actually use every day.
The prize isn't a device or an app. It's this guy — the person doing the asking. Whoever holds that relationship owns the next decade of computing.
And the catch? The labs building these agents admit they can't fully control them. Losing the alignment fight right as you hand the thing your credit card is a bold strategy.
Three hands, three strings, one dot each. The researchers building these agents say the grip is looser than the marketing suggests.
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Source: Axios
