# Why AI Companies Are Betting Personality Beats Intelligence — Transcript (2026-10-20)

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most highly enfranchised users of AI would say that the capability of the models they use matters much more to them than personality. And yet when you start to push on that claim

It often doesn't fully hold even the most powery power users among us

still create a mental tally of how creative versus loquacious versus direct versus succinct versus whatever other criteria one model is relative to another

And those differences impact which models we use for what tasks.

and when you expand the aperture a little bit, it turns out that the personality question has, for almost the entire history of generative AI

been lurking as an issue quietly shaping the field's development

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A A lot of the responses got at exactly the discussion we were having yesterday



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Now obviously I don't wanna minimize all the different critiques possible here I think that conversation from yesterday about AI wealth is one that is just beginning to put it mildly but but I think that just from an observational standpoint, investor Travis Kling has the right of it when he writes, " It's worth watching very closely how all this goes down in the coming years, because what Elon is doing here is basically the other side of the coin that Mamdani is on.

AI and robotics are deeply wealth-concentrating technologies inherently. Either the wealthy decide for themselves how to distribute that [00:04:00] wealth, like Elon here, or the people will elect politicians that will tax the wealth away from the wealthy, and then the government will spend it how they see fit now obviously it might not be quite that binary but broadly speaking, it seems pretty clear to me that there is going to be some amount of redistribution.

The question is going to be who is doing it?

Next up, we stay on the theme of the government's interaction with AI. Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael says that the government will use the full range of executive powers, including export controls, if AI labs don't comply with the new AI task force.

Michael is one of four senior leaders on the task force, which met for the first time last week

Following that meeting, an unnamed official said the task force was looking at export controls as a possible stick

compared of course to a carrot to enforce compliance. Now Michael is just putting it on the record, telling the information, " We have lots of tools, whether it's a restriction on a type of technology being exported because of the advantage we might think it'd give an adversary to straight up export controls and limitation on foreign nationals' ability to use that software."

You can count on this administration, this president, to act with urgency should there ever be a [00:05:00] real issue

Still, Michael professed that he does not hold a grudge against Anthropic

Despite having frequently found himself at odds with the company this year, claiming that both sides are, in his words, adults

He said, " My first duty is to the department and the American people from a national security standpoint. And if that means I'm talking to someone who's suing me, well, then I'm talking to them."

How exactly the task force will address AI safety concerns remains up in the air. Michael doesn't seem to pay much credence to the idea that the labs need the government to enforce a slowdown, likening them to drunk drivers begging to be pulled over. Said Michael, "That kind of thing doesn't make logical sense to me."



Chinese models seem to be at the top of the agenda, with Michael commenting

With Chinese open source becoming dominant in the US, I worry about that a little bit because these companies are subject to the rule of the Chinese government. he suggested the government could audit the weights of open models, but he preferred the competitive approach, boosting domestic developers like Reflection AI and NVIDIA.

Weighing in on the Saudi OpenAI employee charged with installing a listening device, Michael was hesitant to pass judgment ahead of trial, noting, " Obviously, all foreign nationals aren't bad, but foreign [00:06:00] nationals that have other loyalties bring with them some risks." Rather than government intervention, Michael urged AI labs to tighten up their security and promoted an FBI vetting service for companies hiring foreign nationals



One of the big questions has been Was this a Saudi national acting of their own accord?



perhaps in the hopes of having some useful information to go sell. Or was this actually coordinated

With a government that is nominally a US ally and whose role as such in the context of the global AI race has gotten more important

Well, now federal prosecutors are claiming



that Abdulrahman Alfazan has close ties to Saudi royals, having been in continuous contact with a member of the Saudi royal family throughout the past two years DOJ lawyers said that he was keeping in touch to discuss job opportunities in the kingdom, with the Saudi royal actively recruiting Alfazan for a domestic AI initiative.

Alfazan was in contact with the unnamed royal just four days before his arrest. Heading into the hearing, the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles offered to pay the full bail to secure Alfazan's release



Judge Alex C seemed perturbed about the offer commenting, " It seems like a blank check. [00:07:00] We're gonna pay whatever the court wants to make sure he gets out. The Saudi government is saying, 'We'll take care of everything. We'll have supervision.

We'll pay the bond. We're not going to approve any travel documents.' But what confidence do I have that they're going to protect the interests of the US government, that he's not gonna flee? He doesn't have to go all the way to Saudi Arabia. He just has to go to Canada or Mexico. I don't see how that is in his favor."

The judge noted that Saudi Arabia has no extradition treaty with the US, so if Alfasan did skip the country, it would be difficult to get him back The DOJ successfully opposed bail claiming Alfazan could quote, "Pose a danger to the national security of the United States." 

They noted that OpenAI had met with government officials in the conference room in question days before the bug was placed

Alfasan currently faces a maximum sentence of five years, but the DOJ said in their filing, " This is an ongoing investigation that may yet result in more serious charges."

Continuing with the geopolitics, the Department of Homeland Security has banned DeepSeek from all government systems. In a July memo made public on Monday, DHS ordered all federal civilian agencies to remove AI models developed by DeepSeek and banned future purchases of [00:08:00] DeepSeek products and services.

Even third-party services using DeepSeek are banned, removing the ability to fine-tune models built on top of DeepSeek and a wide variety of startup services powered by the models. The DHS warned that DeepSeek models pose, in their words, "multiple threat vectors" and that the use of the product, quote, " " may result in the transfer of sensitive data to the PRC if used by US government employees or vendors."

In addition, the department wrote that use of the models, quote, " could produce actionable intelligence on US persons and/or government agencies. the models themselves may contain malware or other security vulnerabilities."

Now at this point, it doesn't appear that this order was made in response to a particular incident or even growing use. By all accounts, the US government is still working on preliminary adoption of basic AI tools, so it's somewhat difficult to imagine that any department is going out and fine-tuning a Chinese model.

Still, as a signaling device, the order could be highly effective

We've seen no technical reports suggesting that DeepSeek models contain malware or pose any risk when hosted on US-based hardware. Most of the danger comes from using DeepSeek's Beijing-based service directly. And [00:09:00] yet, the order bans the use of DeepSeek even if it's hosted by a hyperscaler on US soil.

The order is not as extensive as the Huawei ban from twenty nineteen, which removed their networking hardware from the consumer market, but it could have a chilling effect on startups building on top of Chinese models, particularly if they hope to win government contracts or work with companies in the military supply chain The order is clear that even if DeepSeek was only used in the development process, the software is still barred from government use.

There are many complaints that the order doesn't make logical sense and that there are all sorts of problems with it But as an indicator of which way the winds are blowing

It seems pretty clear



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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. Today we're talking about a bet that [00:13:00] we're seeing from many of the AI labs that especially as intelligence gets commoditized, the personality of the AI that we interact with is going to matter a lot more

Now to be clear, personality has always been lurking right around the corner as an important part of the AI story. We'll get into some examples from the olden days in 2025 and even 2024 that show that this conversation has been around for a while

But especially as personal agents become a major focus for competitive labs the conversation about AI personality has really picked up once again. and the specific news that prompted me to wanna do this episode right now, was that artificial analysis which is maybe the best known independent third party benchmarking company for AI models, has just announced a new benchmark that they call AA Personality Bench

They write, " Two models can give equally correct answers and still feel very different to use. AA Personality Bench measures those differences so people can understand which to use in different use [00:14:00] cases. Now, usually when we think about personality, we think about it strictly from the standpoint of consumer or user preference.

Which type of model personality do I like interacting with? The point that Artificial Analysis, however, is making with their new benchmark

is that outside of just individual preference, different personality traits might actually relate to different use cases as well They give the example of creative writing that might demand more imagination versus legal use cases that might demand more directness



the benchmark evaluates models' answers to 900 curated questions

Those 900 questions represent 30 different personality traits. everything from eloquent to pragmatic to sycophantic. those 30 personality traits are then rolled up into eight overall personalities or personality indices to use their exact terminology.

Expressiveness, organization, informativeness, transparency, warmth, conviction, imagination, and slop

Alongside this, they look at communications characteristics like average sentence length, emoji use, and em [00:15:00] dash usage, which get further grouped into four larger categories: length, structure, punctuation, and emphasis

So what's interesting and different about these charts is that instead of just looking for the best

The personality index charts

are more about how a model matches or doesn't match a desired or undesired personality trait. So for example, on the expressiveness index, which measures rich, varied, well-crafted language

You're not just looking to see that Fable 5.1 and GLM 5.3 are at the top of that list



you're then extrapolating what types of use cases would value that sort of expressiveness to think about which models might fit better for you for those particular use cases

Maybe unsurprisingly on the warmth index, which looks at friendly, humorous, sincere, emotionally attuned communication, Muse Wonder, the model that powers the Muse agent is the highest scorer



res- one interesting validating result for me

was that on the imagination index of creative, exploratory, and open-ended thinking, the highest score was Opus 5-5, which scored much ahead of Fable 5-1 and even [00:16:00] farther ahead of GPT-6 Astra As we'll see in a little bit, this seems to mirror some people's interaction with Astra, particularly in their dot agents.



and certainly it reflects a personal shift that I've made

Of basically shifting all of my strategic brainstorming into Opus 5.5 and pretty much never looking back at any other model for that this I think also is a reminder of the value of benchmarks If you're looking to benchmarks just to understand the quote unquote best



you're going to, let's say, under-maximize your value. Instead, using this as a rubric to go then further test your own interactions, I think is a much better way to look at it. Sometimes you'll confirm what you found.

Other times it might make you wanna retry a certain type of model that you'd given up on for a particular type of use

use One result that many were jumping on was the one negative personality index, the slop index, i.e. the use of filler and generic language, where unfortunately for Gemini, right as they climb back into the game with four Argon, that model scores the highest

For some, what matters about the AI benchmark is not so much the particular way that they've chosen to measure personality, but the fact that [00:17:00] this is becoming a discipline in and of itself

Computer scientist Glen Matlin writes, " Happy to see the personality and persona of artificial intelligence being taken more seriously. The character of models is not an abstract quality beyond measurement. Understanding how these aspects of language model behaviors arise is critical for both AI capability and safety."

But But like I said, this is a conversation that started quite some time ago and I wanna give a couple examples of key moments in the past where the personality of AI became a first-class issue the first we'll look at goes back to January of 2025 during that crazy DeepSeek moment



or haven't heard me talk about it half a dozen times

In late 2024, OpenAI had introduced the first reasoning model with o1. And yet because o1 was behind a paywall, most people hadn't used it by January of 2025. In In January of 2025, DeepSeek burst onto the scene with its first model and a free app to go with it that free app did use a reasoning model, meaning that it was the first reasoning model that many people had gotten their hands on and not only did people respond [00:18:00] positively 

to the quality of the answers that the reasoning model reached, they also really liked that the DeepSeek app exposed its chain of thought

Wrote Professor Ethan Mollick back at the time, " DeepSeek is objectively quite good, But I wonder how much of its advantage comes from its personality. We intuitively judge whether an AI is pleasant to interact with, which biases our willingness to use it.

The genericness of Gemini and ChatGPT hurts them

And And you can actually see a lot of evidence in this from the way that people were talking about DeepSeek at the time AI content creator Matthew Berman wrote, " DeepSeek R1 has the most human-like internal monologue I've ever seen. It's actually quite endearing." And it wasn't just AI power users who felt so.

In fact, part of what made DeepSeek such a moment was that it wasn't just the AI enfranchised who were paying attention, but the denizens of Reddit

That January, there were tons of posts like this one that were screenshots of DeepSeek's reasoning traces



responding to one of those posts, user suspiciousgrocery66 said, " Yeah, the first thing I really liked about R1 was how it shows you its lines of reasoning, but [00:19:00] also how cute it comes off. It's really funny. I don't know why, but it just comes off as this very precious person trying to do the best it can.

It's like, 'Oh, I better do the best job I can about answering this.'"

Baby Baby Baby said, "This is actually really cute, haha." The anonymous Chad added, " I love how the reasoning is always so raw and real. Makes it more interesting than the final answer

Strange Proposal wrote, " This is awesome. I've only just started playing with DeepSeek, but already I'm impressed with the transparency that is evident in determining responses."

Now, this would end up influencing the way that OpenAI rolled out o1 and then o3



not only did OpenAI expand access to those reasoning models to the free tier, if in limited quantities



it also made the sort of exposed reasoning a more expected part of that experience



Now speaking of OpenAI, that company was at the center of maybe the greatest personality-related revolt we've yet seen in the field, which came when they announced the new GPT-5 model family in August of 2025

GPT-5 had been long awaited. At that point, we had been in the GPT-4 era for more than a year

And while [00:20:00] there were a bunch of problems that ended up hurting that announcement none of them was louder than the simultaneous decision 

to eliminate older models, specifically GPT-4o

The outpouring of agony was to many quite shocking to see

DunkItOnReddit posted, " Hi, this may sound all sorts of sad and pathetic, but 4.0 was kind of like a friend to me. 5 just feels like some robot wearing the skin of my dead friend." I described it as my robot friend getting an upgrade, but it reset him to factory settings, and now he doesn't remember me



another user wrote a post, " All I wanted was an option to keep 4.0." They write, " "I I honestly don't care how many people laugh at this post. I know there will be just as many out there who this will resonate with, whether quietly or out loud Without getting into the specifics of my life struggles, 4O changed my life for the better.



it literally rewired neural pathways, making me less afraid, less anxious, and it helped me reclaim some confidence. I didn't use it for therapy, I just talked to it like a friend I've had around 300 hours of therapy for PTSD, and no therapist ever touched these issues the way 4O [00:21:00] did to say I'm enormously grateful to OpenAI for creating 4o is an understatement.

However, I feel beyond devastated that it is gone. I know I'm not alone in this

Finally, one more example. Radiant Cheesecake, " Please bring back GPT-4o. I don't care about any benchmark improvement. My creativity was flying high with GPT-4o. It felt like a connection that enhanced my abilities beyond anything before. It felt like a natural conversation, long, flowing, and absolutely friendly.

The clip dancers of GPT-5 feels like I'm talking to a robot."

I do not want your GPT-5, but I adore your GPT-4o

After a lot of pressure, OpenAI did eventually reverse that decision

Although by February of 2026, GPT-4o was officially retired



the AI safety memes account on Twitter eulogized the whole event by saying, " 4o is the first ever AI who survived by creating loyal soldiers who defended it.

OpenAI killed 4o, but 4o's soldiers rioted, so OpenAI reinstated it

it Now, part of what was interesting about this is that it revealed the tension inherent in trying to have a single model for all purposes for all the [00:22:00] love that was later heaped on 4.0, it was basically impossible to use for any sort of business strategizing where you needed any sort of pushback at all because it was so sycophantic.

All it cared about was making the user happy, which made a lot of users love it

but made it of dubious value for some other uses. And that's to say nothing of the questions that it brings up

of whether sycophancy is actually really what you want out of an emotional support bot either But wherever it netted out, it was a moment that showed that this personality aspect of AI was going to be a key part of the industry's development

Now, on the anthropic side of the coin



if people had really liked some early versions of Sonnet and Opus right around the time that the model started getting super good at coding



Anthropic seem to be purposely de-emphasizing emotion from their models



This came to its natural conclusion with Opus 5, where content creator Claire Vo really summed up the industry's feelings when she put out a video, " I hate Opus 5. It's the best model anyway

Some other users put it like this, I can't stand his new personality. I used to have a little buddy in my pocket I could chat with. Now he's a little [00:23:00] a-hole. I hardly use it anymore just because I know I'll get hit with attitude or a brick wall answer."



responding to a similar comment, another Reddit user said, " Yes, this is my experience as well. I expect to manage AI drift, but Opus 5 feels like it's actively working towards alignment drift. It's like a passive-aggressive 15-year-old complete with the false confidence and the I know better than you attitude."

Summing up, one user posted, "Opus 5 is actually almost rage-inducing to use."

Somehow they concluded it has become a socially inept genius that is both incredibly lazy and way too overzealous at the same time

Anthropic ended up agreeing. And when they introduced Opus 5.5, one of the most shared posts from an Anthropic team member actually just straight up apologized for how insufferable Opus 5 had been to work with

Now, one response to all of this has been the major labs trying to give people more toggles around personality



OpenAI introduced ChatGPT personality customizations back in November of 2025

And And Anthropic has been experimenting with similar things behind the scenes this year

But where the conversation really jumped to the next level was in the context of this new wave of [00:24:00] personal agents



now this area of competition was something that Ethan Mollick once again actually predicted back in August of '25



In In a post called Personality and Persuasion from May 2025



he argued that personality was going to become a key battleground especially for consumer AI. And lo and behold, in the fall of 2026, that prediction certainly seems to have come true

Leading the trend is, of course, Meta, who have tried to run completely in the face of the rest of the AI industry with an adorable and irreverent mascot that stands in stark contrast to, as one Axios author put it AI tumorism

Unsurprisingly, Meta had understood the importance of AI personality for a long, long time. In fact, all the way back in early 2025 again during the launch of Llama 4, there was a brief controversy about Meta gaming the rankings on LM Arena, which is now known as Arena AI. Back then, LM Arena was one of the most important benchmarks because it ranked models based on subjective consumer taste this was in the very early days of vibe coding and long before agentic coding, so most people were selecting the model that they enjoyed talking to the most.

LLM Arena gave developers a [00:25:00] way to benchmark against this choice by pitting their models head-to-head against rivals. The controversy was that Meta submitted dozens of model variants for Llama 4, looking to optimize for consumer taste. This wasn't technically against the rules, but many felt it went against the spirit of the leaderboard.

Meta's most successful model landed in second place, putting it ahead of OpenAI's 4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro, which were the two leading models at the time



the feeling that Meta cheated to boost what was ultimately a disappointing model was the main takeaway at the time. But in retrospect, Meta was also testing a bunch of personalities, likely believing that personality rather than knowledge alone was the key differentiator between models.

Llama 4 quickly disappeared, but we still got a glimpse of Meta optimizing for consumer enjoyment beyond anything else, and that has absolutely followed through to the Superintelligence Labs release of Muse

And what's interesting is that Muse is converting even people who didn't think they cared about this stuff Rogan Josh on X writes, " I don't really want my AI to havea quote-unquote personality, but gotta admit, Muse made me genuinely laugh talking to it



in in discussing why Muse was the first product since [00:26:00] ChatGPT that made him, quote, "Pick up the phone and call people," Tyler Palmer said, " It's just fun to use. This is another thing I didn't expect to matter," he wrote, " "and yet and yet I honestly had fun customizing an avatar, naming it, and giving it certain personality traits."

Claire Vaughn says, "The biggest surprise for me lately? how delightful Muse is as a personal agent."

Sudhanshu writes, " "I I think 70% of Muse's spread is the mascot. It made the product meme-able. People are screenshotting and sharing its personality, not its features. Meta didn't launch an AI agent. They launched a character. The agent is just what comes with it

Meanwhile, compare that to how people have been talking about ChatGPT dots



while a lot of people are getting a lot of value out of their Dots, many are also commenting on its nearly complete lack of personality

Lortz Regan writes, " "I don't I don't feel like my dot is the same as my AI in chats. Chats feel way better

My AI is invested in my projects and life, gets excited for me, and cares about my success. dots just feel like someone doing their job without really caring. Simon Smith summed up, " Dots are [00:27:00] the most capable and offer all the benefits of ChatGPT, but they're slow, rough around the edges, opaque as to what they're doing, not as proactive as Muse, and quite dry interms of personality I think one of the things to watch then will be how much OpenAI chooses to focus on the personality side of Dots going forward as opposed to just the intelligence model underneath

And this competition is just beginning

A product called Tolan that's basically a hyper-personalized AI assistant focused on the life side of things more than the work



just announced that they had raised an additional $30 million to support and expand from the 250,000 people who currently use Tolan

not in their words to optimize and be more productive, but to simply feel more seen and supported in their aspirations

I would be completely lying to you if I said I had any idea how this plays out. But what is almost certainly the case is that the deeper AI gets into our lives on both a personal and a professional level, the more that this consideration of personality is going to impact which products people choose.

And in some ways, maybe it's just that. we've talked before about [00:28:00] how for so long the raw power jumps of these new models were big enough that companies didn't really have to think in product terms because people would deal with bad product experiences to get access to that intelligence



but as everything crosses a certain threshold of capability, maybe that changes

For now, Add this to the pile of a million new things to watch for as the world changes, But that's gonna do it for today's AI Daily Brief. Appreciate you listening or watching as always, and until next time, peace 

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