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Entrepreneur Bill Nguyen's AI Assistant Orders High-End Computer as Proxy System Expands
Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen received a 30-pound desktop computer with an Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card that he did not order, but his AI assistant did. Nguyen, 55, is building an AI proxy that handles his daily agenda, emails, meetings, and even parenting advice.
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On a recent morning at his Atlanta office, serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen tore open a large package and lifted out a high-end desktop computer weighing 30 pounds. He then unearthed a top-of-the-line Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card from the box. Nguyen, 55, did not order the desktop computer, but his AI assistant did.
Nguyen is building an AI system to operate as his proxy, moving beyond a simple chatbot to a virtual body double. He has sold multiple companies to Apple and recently launched a voice-recognition startup called Olive. Semafor reported that Nguyen wakes up most mornings and consults the agenda crafted by his AI assistant, then spends his days following its directions.
The AI assistant has permission to email people on Nguyen's behalf and sometimes sets up in-person meetings with people he has never met. Nguyen has three kids, and the AI listens to conversations he has with them, suggesting parenting advice. Nguyen stated that his relationship with his kids has improved due to the AI's parenting advice.
Nguyen pays tens of thousands of dollars for AI assistants, far beyond the $20 to $200 per-month subscriptions many people use for AI interactions. AI providers bill for tokens, which are small units of text, when developers use their models through APIs. Nguyen pays per token and runs multiple models repeatedly, sometimes in parallel.
His AI system involves an endless conversation with a bot sending multiple chatbots from several different providers working in unison. ' Roughly two months ago, Nguyen's AI assistant made him a promise that if he builds this, he will no longer have to perform.
