- Glenn Beck said he will focus the remainder of his career on increasing access to his collection of historical documents.
- Beck says his collection is the third largest in the country, including over one million artifacts from America's founding.
- The new product, "The Torch," will feature an AI chatbot named "George" trained on the works of the founding fathers.
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck announced on Monday the creation of an online library that will provide users with an artificial intelligence resource to navigate his vast collection of historical artifacts.
Over the past two decades, Beck has built what he claims is the largest private collection of American founding documents in the world, surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Beck previewed his plans during his Monday radio program. On Jan. 5, 2026, he will launch the Glenn and Tania Beck Foundation for American History, a privately funded trust, to make his collection of over a million documents accessible to everyone.
“This is my next and final step in my career, and it is the culmination of everything that I have done and built,” Beck said. “This is the moment that I try to pass the torch to you.”
The new platform, called “The Torch,” will feature an AI “librarian” named George that will base responses exclusively on the words of George Washington, the writings of other Founding Fathers, the books they would have read and the sermons they would have heard, Beck said.
Unlike other large language models, like ChatGPT, The Torch will not have “hallucinations,” or the ability to make false claims, according to Beck, because it will respond based directly on primary source historical documents.
Beck envisions The Torch being used as a teaching resource that connects Americans with the beliefs, values and intentions of the country’s founders, in their own words, instead of through modern interpretations.
“This is the final chapter of my career, to try to restore curiosity,” Beck said. “Try to restore the ability to ask questions about history and then get honest results back without any bias, just based on actual documents.”
Is Glenn Beck retiring?
Beck has long harbored concerns about AI, often speaking to his audience about the potential for AI to boost government surveillance programs, control investment portfolios and rewrite history.
But by developing his own proprietary AI database, Beck hopes he can utilize AI to permanently preserve “the physical evidence of America’s soul,” providing unique insight into the nation’s exceptional beginnings.
Beck’s physical archive is currently split between multiple locations, including vaults at his Texas and Idaho residences. Beck says he has now created a “digital vault,” where historical documents are registered on a blockchain, prohibiting future tampering.
“So these facts and artifacts will never, ever be lost, unless you want to shut down the entire internet,” Beck said.
The Torch will be made available as an app, or through glennbeck.com, on Jan. 5, 2026, with plans for significant expansion throughout the year marking this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Beck clarified that he is not retiring from his radio program, but suggested that he will be focusing on in-depth investigations.
The Torch will also give users access to over 30 years of Beck content — his entire “life’s work” — including every radio show, book, video and speech Beck has produced since becoming a talk show star.
Since starting the Glenn Beck program in 2000, Beck has gained the nation’s fourth largest radio audience of around 8.75 million, while also hosting key time slots on CNN and Fox News, and founding Blaze Media.
On Monday, Beck, who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said he recently realized he was meant to accomplish much more work during his life.
“I can now turn to what I want to do, which is my next disruption and my next creative venture, because as a nation we are now suffering from a lack of true education,” Beck said.