Artificial Intelligence

AGI Inc Wants Your Phone to Run Itself

AGI Inc is building on-device agents that read your screen and tap apps for you, starting with food orders.

StartupHub.ai Staff

By StartupHub.ai Staff, reviewed by Daniel Singer, Editor

3 min read

Phone chores still eat time because each order or booking means opening apps and tapping through menus. Div Garg told EO that AGI Inc is building a personal assistant that does that tapping for you, on phones and on wearables like smart glasses and watches.

AGI Inc's bet is ownership.

Naman Garg, AGI Inc co-founder leading engineering and research, laid out how AGI Inc works today. A user sends a task and AGI Inc grabs a screenshot. Then an action model, software that reads pixels and predicts the next UI move, picks a click, type or scroll. An agent harness, the loop that sends that move to the screen and checks the new state, repeats until AGI Inc reaches the end, with Will, who covers growth and wearables for AGI Inc, showing a live DoorDash Chipotle order for four that paused at a $91 confirmation guardrail before completing, as shown by AGI Inc.

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

Steve, AGI Inc co-founder, said the current limit for AGI Inc is not single taps but memory and context, the stored history that lets AGI Inc handle vague asks and act before you ask. Naman Garg said inference, the compute that runs the model, still lives partly in the cloud for AGI Inc, and shrinking AGI Inc models to run fully on device cuts capability and speed. That gap matters because a 96% single-step rate sounds fine, yet Garg said errors compound across 10 or 20 steps, with a 90% step rate falling toward 40% over 20 tasks, so AGI Inc is chasing production reliability, not a demo that works once in ten.

Div Garg said AGI Inc wants all inference on device, where data never leaves the phone so there is no cloud to trust, unlike rented models on someone else's servers. Div Garg said AGI Inc builds its own on-device models and claims AGI Inc ranks number one on Android World, a benchmark that tests agents doing real tasks inside Android apps, while AGI Inc says chip partners including Qualcomm came after seeing a phone do what their own silicon had never shown. Div Garg frames that as a business split, since frontier labs will not ship a model you fully own because that breaks cloud revenue.

Div Garg, who left a Stanford PhD and says he turned down an OpenAI offer to start AGI Inc, pitches AGI Inc as equal access to help billionaires buy with staff. Public searches confuse AGI Inc with a different listed issuer under a similar AGI name, which completed an IPO of 20,000,000 Class A shares at $12.00 for $240.0 million in gross proceeds, according to the filing summary, as of the Quantisnow record. Watch whether AGI Inc can hold multi-step accuracy high while moving the last cloud piece onto the device.

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