个人代理空间在最近几周变得非常竞争，Meta的Muse、OpenAI的Dot和Instinct领跑潮头，每周都有更多竞争者推出。但Vinod·可斯拉(Vinod Khosla)投资支持前Google和DeepMind工程师Shivani·Poddar的Wajo，理由简单：信任。
The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in the recent weeks, with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dot, and Instinct taking the lead and more competitors being launched each week But Vinod Khosla is betting on former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar’s Wajo for one simple reason: trust.
“我认为代理中最重要的事情是信任，因为它代表你行事，你必须信任这个代理。我认为与Muse或Instinct相比，Wajo最值得信赖，因为它在架构上优先考虑信任和安全，而其他一些并非如此，”可斯拉在接受TechCrunch采访时表示。
“I think the most important thing in an agent, because it’s acting for you, is trust. You have to have trust in the agent, and I think compared to either Muse or Instinct, Wajo is the most trustworthy because it is architected to focus on trust and safety first, and some of the others are not,” Khosla told TechCrunch over a call.
“我是说，谁愿意把所有数据交给Facebook[Meta]呢？我不愿意。如果我把数据交给Facebook，那么我就是他们的产品，而不是我正在购买的产品，因为他们做广告生意。所以信任很重要，大多数人并不信任像Facebook这样的大公司，”他补充道。
“I mean, who wants to give all their data to Facebook [Meta]? I don’t. And if I give my data to Facebook, I’m the product, not the product I am buying, because they are in the ad business. So trust is important, and most people don’t trust a large company like Facebook,” he added.
从广义上讲，Wajo的Fo代理运行方式与Muse或Instinct非常相似。该代理可以在iMessage和WhatsApp之间工作，并提供带有潜在任务卡片的网页界面。事务被组织到“日程安排”、“送礼”和“生活管理”等类别中。它的代理还可以代表你给企业或其他人打电话，根据需要预订或取消服务。
In broad strokes, Wajo’s Fo agent works very much like Muse or Instinct. The agent can work across iMessage and WhatsApp, and has a web interface with cards of potential tasks. Errands are organized into categories like “scheduling,” “gifting,” and “life admin.”Its agent can also call businesses or other people on your behalf, booking or cancelling services as needed.
在一些早期测试中，我让它给航空公司打电话询问升舱情况，它成功完成了。然而，当我让它给我的伴侣打电话提醒她喂猫时，电话并不顺利，披露信息也不够清晰。随着像Instinct和Muse这样的竞争对手也在慢慢推出呼叫功能，我们可能会看到更多关于AI代表他人打电话时应如何披露自己的身份的讨论。该工具的一个独特之处是，当需要时，它可以雇佣人类完成任务。
In a few early tests, I asked it to call an airline to check for upgrades, and it successfully did so. However, when I asked it to call my partner and remind her to feed the cats, the call didn’t go smoothly, and disclosures were less clear. As rivals like Instinct and Muse are also rolling out calling ability slowly, we might see more discussions around how an AI calling on someone’s behalf should disclose itself. One of the unique things about the tool is that it can hire a human to complete a task when needed.
除此之外，Fo还能生成虚拟信用卡并代用户完成支付，且不会泄露用户的任何信息。该智能代理还拥有自己的电子邮箱，可独立与个人或企业进行沟通。当某些网站或服务屏蔽了AI代理时，Fo会提醒用户采取相应措施，或者协助用户与企业建立群组以完成身份验证。
Apart from this, Fo can create a virtual credit card and pay on your behalf without disclosing your details. The agent also has its own email and can converse with people and businesses. When websites or services block AI agents, Fo can inform the user to take action or create a group with the user and the business for verification.
这家初创公司还获得了杰夫·迪恩和戈库尔·拉贾拉姆的支持，不过并未透露具体的融资数额。Wajo没有公布用户数量，但称其服务已覆盖107个国家，自9月底上线以来用户量增长了10倍。
The startup has also secured backing from Jeff Dean and Gokul Rajaram apart, but didn’t specify the money raised. Wajo didn’t provide any numbers around users but said that its being used in 107 countries and has grown 10x since its launch in late September.
创始人故事：在创立Wajo之前，波达尔曾在Meta、谷歌和DeepMind担任多个工程类职位，还参与了第一代Facebook助手的开发工作。她表示自己一直希望打造对用户真正有用的产品。
Founder story Prior to founding Wajo, Poddar worked in various engineering roles at Meta, Google, and DeepMind and was invovled in making the first Facebook assistant. She said that she wanted to build products that were useful to people.
“将Gemini推向市场并构建其安全机制的过程让我深刻意识到，实现这一目标需要多么深厚的技术功底。谷歌的技术实力毋庸置疑，但有时在产品层面却稍显滞后。因此我觉得自己需要打造一款兼具技术优势与产品价值的产品，而且必须切实满足用户的需求。”波达尔在接受TechCrunch电话采访时说道。
“The whole journey of bringing Gemini to the world and building safety for it made me realize the technological depth that you need to do this. Google is so good in technology that sometimes it can be left behind in product. I thought I needed to do something that is both technology and product at the same time. It has to be something different, which is very grounded in what the user needs,” Poddar told TechCrunch over a call.
这位前谷歌工程负责人认同科斯拉关于“信任”的观点，并强调信任是Wajo的核心原则之一。
Former Google engineering lead mirrored Khosla’s thoughts around Trust, and emphasized that it was one of the core principles for Wajo.
“信任必须从一开始就着手建立，因为目前尚未解决的一个技术难题就是如何让AI代理‘遗忘’已获取的信息。一旦它们在初始阶段就获得了用户的个人数据，日后便始终会保留这些数据。我认为信任的构建应从第一天起就开始，这不仅体现在技术架构层面，也体现在产品设计的方方面面。”她说道。
“Trust is something you have to build from the get-go because one of the technological things that has not been solved yet is teaching agents to unlearn. If they get access to your personal data on day zero, they will always have it for the future. I think trust needs to be built from day zero, not only in your architecture, but in product choices,” she said.
该公司正在几个与信任和安全相关的领域开展工作。它已申请了一项专利，用于其虚拟卡系统，该系统能隐藏用户的信息，防止这些信息被网站获取。对于电话呼叫，该公司表示将为用户提供一个“受信联系人”名单，用户可以在其中添加可以给他们打电话的代理。当收到来电时，你也可以告诉代理不要再打电话给你，而Wajo会记录这一偏好。
The company is doing work in a few areas in relation to trust and safety. It has applied for a patent for its virtual card system that hides users’ information from sites. For calls, the company said it will include a “trusted contact” list for users whose agents can call them. When you get a call, you can also tell the agent not to call you again, and Wajo records that preference.
与此同时，Wajo的Fo代理在亚马逊平台上为用户提供了一个针对条款服务（TOS）投诉的解决方案。购物愉快 :) 2026年10月6日这家初创公司的挑战在于，不像其他代理那样引发隐私问题，尤其是当它将安全作为核心价值进行营销时。该公司还声称，尽管像Muse这样的工具已被亚马逊屏蔽，但其架构仍遵守电子商务服务的服务条款。
In the meantime, wajo’s Fo has a tos complaint solution to agents on Amazon folks. Shop on :) October 6, 2026 The startup’s challenge is not to raise privacy concerns like other agents, especially as it is marketing safety as a core value. It also claims that despite tools like Muse being blocked by Amazon its architecture follows the ecommerce service’s terms of service.
Wajo表示，在未来数月中，它将探索其Fo代理如何在多个用户之间在社交场景中协同工作，其核心理念是维护用户隐私。
Wajo said that in the coming months it will explore how its Fo agent will work in social settings across multiple users, with the core idea of keeping privacy intact.