The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in 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.

“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.