Cerebras CEO says we are approaching a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home

Andrew Feldman, CEO of Serbras, envisions a future where AI assistants become as common as household appliances, operating partly from local devices and partly in the cloud.

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Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, believes that we are approaching a future where everyone will have an AI device in their home.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Tuesday, the chipmaker's chief executive responded to a question about what would have to happen for AI to become a household appliance, saying, "Actually, I don't think it's that far off."

He pointed to advances by consumer AI players like Meta's Muse and Instinct, a startup now valued at $10 billion, as examples of how AI is finding its place among everyday users.

What about home AI? He predicts that we will have personal AI assistants that run locally.

"Just like your cell phone, they do some things on the device and some things to the cloud," Feldman explained. "But I think they know you well and you're going to have a security environment around them. And they're certainly going to have access to credit cards and they're going to be able to buy you things," he continued. "I think they will have a significant impact on improving our lives."

Of course, for an AI chip maker, the prospect of a home AI device, or at least widespread adoption of the agent technology by consumers, is certainly attractive.

But Feldman doesn't just work on hardware infrastructure. A self-proclaimed AI user, he says he now uses "a collection of proxies" to sweep his calendar, gather information about people he's supposed to contact, and more. While AI is already doing many of the things we used to do manually, Feldman is excited about the new possibilities—things that weren't possible before.

However, he leaves it to other founders to figure out what they can be.

"One of the reasons I love being in infrastructure is that I don't need a consumer idea ... I like to build platforms where other people's ideas can fly," he said.

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