White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks says artificial intelligence is about to move beyond chatbots and into a more personal, action-oriented phase.
In a new episode of the All-In Podcast, Sacks says 2026 will mark the rise of the personal AI assistant, a shift he described as a fundamental change in how people interact with artificial intelligence.
“Until now, AI has mainly come in the form factor of a chatbot, and it’s been used as a research tool… It’s better search. Now we’re moving to a completely different form factor, which is, again, this AI assistant, that’s an agent that can do things for you. And it’s going to get better and better at doing different tasks for you. Everyone’s going to have this amazing AI agent.”
Sacks believes that the biggest winners in the emergence of AI agents may not be startups, but large incumbents with deep access to user data and established trust relationships.
He singles out Google as being uniquely positioned to benefit from the transition to personal AI agents, pointing to its control over core productivity data.
“Now, who is the beneficiary of this market opportunity? I mean, there’s obviously gonna be some startups, but I think it’s a tremendous opportunity for Google, because the question is, who has your data? Google has all my email, my calendar, my documents, which is exactly the stuff that I would want to integrate with Clawd Bot if I believed it was safe.”
Sacks says that trust is already implicitly granted to Google by millions of users, making adoption friction far lower than it would be for newer entrants.
“Obviously, I’ve already made the determination that Google is safe because they already have all my data. So I think Google is in a tremendous position to offer a personal AI system that’s connected with your email and calendar for those of us who are using G Suite and so on.
Obviously, there’ll be opportunities for other companies as well. But I think this is going to be such a big product that it may become the dominant form factor of AI, meaning more popular than the sort of research-oriented chatbot.”
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