Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.
Key points
- Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says personal home AI assistants are not far away.
- He predicts assistants will run partly on device and partly in the cloud.
- Feldman says he already uses a collection of agents for daily tasks.
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman said on Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that a future in which everyone has a personal AI assistant at home is not far off. Asked what would need to happen for AI to become a home appliance, he said, "Actually, I don't think that's very far away."
Feldman pointed to consumer AI agents such as Meta's Muse and Instinct, a startup now valued at $10 billion, as signs that AI is gaining ground with everyday users.
How the assistants would work
Feldman predicted personal AI assistants that run locally. He compared them to cell phones, saying they would do some work on the device and some work going back to the cloud.
He said the assistants would get to know users well, would have a security perimeter around them, and would have access to credit cards to buy things. He added that they would make a meaningful impact in making lives better.
Actually, I don't think that's very far away.
— Andrew Feldman
Feldman as an AI user
Feldman said he uses a collection of agents himself to sweep his calendar and pull up information about people he is going to have calls with. He said he is most excited about new possibilities that were not possible before.
He said he leaves it to other founders to figure out what those might be. He said one reason he loves being in infrastructure is that he does not need the consumer-facing idea, and that he likes building platforms that other people's ideas take flight on.
