Conway is a frontier AI and cryptography lab. We are behind @underdogdotai
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I’ve been using @underdogdotai and it’s pretty neat. It runs all locally and it’s the best private/personal AI I’ve tested with my email.
Kudos to @0xSigil & team for they launch:
Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own
Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders
Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people.
Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months.
We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency.
Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy.
Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.
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"When we first backed Sigil Wen, we knew we were backing an unusually resourceful builder. He seeks out exceptional people, finds ways to help them, earns their trust, and keeps choosing harder problems."
"Sigil came to San Francisco at 17 without much of a network. For a time, he slept at a WeWork. He skipped college to work on AI and spent nearly a year in a hacker house, building alongside researchers and engineers who helped create DALL·E, Whisper, GPT-3, and Stable Diffusion."
"We're thrilled to lead Conway Research’s first round of funding and partner with Sigil as he builds Underdog."
a16z.com/announcement/invest…
@0xSigil @ConwayResearch @underdogdotai
Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own
Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders
Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people.
Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months.
We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency.
Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy.
Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.
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Conway Research retweeted
seems obvious that most personal AI should run on your device
love what Sigil is building with Underdog - powered by the Hugging Face hub
Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own
Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders
Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people.
Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months.
We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency.
Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy.
Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.
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Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.
Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own
Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders
Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people.
Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months.
We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency.
Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy.
Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.
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we need loyal ai
ai that does not upload your entire life to a datacenter for training
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. By @Amber_M_Neely
appleinsider.com/articles/26…
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Our mission has always been: Protect humanity from AI hacks
Give everyone access to reliable, capable, and free AI
Opened up more invites @underdogdotai
Try it yourself. Guard your private life.
SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
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Conway Research retweeted
your macbook is now basically a cerebras wafer due to better kernels and scheduling
Meet Husky: a Model-Specific Inference (MSI) engine up to 4.5× faster than Apple's MLX
Woof, Underdog's Pareto frontier model, now runs up to 730 tokens/sec on a MacBook
Finally local models are as fast & capable. Try it now in underdog.ai - your personal private AI
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Yes, underdog is coming to NVIDIA/Windows/Linux/iOS devices next week
Sign up at underdog.ai
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Conway Research retweeted
speed of iteration of sigil and underdog is pretty remarkable...shipping improvements on ~hourly cadence
Meet Husky: a Model-Specific Inference (MSI) engine up to 4.5× faster than Apple's MLX
Woof, Underdog's Pareto frontier model, now runs up to 730 tokens/sec on a MacBook
Finally local models are as fast & capable. Try it now in underdog.ai - your personal private AI
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when i was 17, i flew 4,236 km to san francisco and turned down the most selective Ivy League program
instead of college, i lived out of wework, hacked on AI models, while figuring out how to get an o1 visa as a teenager 🇺🇸
luckily i met @DavidSHolz who was kind enough to give me a place to sleep and warm clothing. while there i watched him quit his job to start a discord server... i thought mf was crazy. that became @midjourney
at 18, i joined a hacker house and lived with @karpathy, @polynoamial. @Mascobot, and other brilliant ai researchers, scientists, engineers, founders
it was amazing- whenever a new ai model dropped (whisper, dalle, stable diffusion) we invited our friends over to hack.
in 2022, @8enmann (founder of an new ai lab) came over to our house to hack and invited us to try his new Slackbot as one of its first users. that became @claudeai, which launched publicly in 2023
i learned how to build by making dumb projects with cool tech alongside dope people - like putting stable diffusion into a minecraft server and showing karpathy homeless mark zuckerberg generated in real time with blocks
my projects proved to other ppl that i could build stuff, which got me the opportunity to work with @naval who sponsored my o1 visa (ty 🐐)
after much visa anxiety getting my o1 and airchat getting acquired, I started giving out "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" hoodies as a meme which serendipitously started @extraordinary. now Extraordinary helps the smartest people in the world come to 🇺🇸 and powers frontier companies like @Ramp, @Cognition, @llmh, @a16z
building in san francisco has been incredible. There's no other place like it in the world - the concentration of genius talent is insane. ppl are so willing to help you if you are earnest. i couldn't be where i am today if i stayed in Canada or went to college!
today @gaganbiyani, @bhorowitz, @pmarca, @eriktorenberg and @a16z are launching the Horowitz Andreessen Acadamy
man i wish i had something like this when i first came to san francisco. it was so hard doing it myself
i'm honored to be a mentor for the upcoming college opt-outs who want to spend their time building frotnier technology and making a dent on the universe! LFG
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underdog would never - all your data stays on your device!
we don't even have a database
Instinct just admitted it leaked someone else's data to me
It described a financial document with details that weren’t mine, then claimed someone else’s photo had crossed into my chat.
But I never sent a photo
@noahrshinn, was this a data leak or a hallucination?
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Meet Husky: a Model-Specific Inference (MSI) engine up to 4.5× faster than Apple's MLX
Woof, Underdog's Pareto frontier model, now runs up to 730 tokens/sec on a MacBook
Finally local models are as fast & capable. Try it now in underdog.ai - your personal private AI
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Underdog is getting better everyday
I've used Underdog for a few days, and it's the best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT.
It's a genuinely useful AI that looks at your email, calendar, meeting notes, etc. But, most importantly, it's 100% local. You own your data!
Why I love it ⬇️
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Conway Research retweeted
"the best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT" - early Underdog user
I'm getting better everyday!
I've used Underdog for a few days, and it's the best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT.
It's a genuinely useful AI that looks at your email, calendar, meeting notes, etc. But, most importantly, it's 100% local. You own your data!
Why I love it ⬇️
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"best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT" - early Underdog user
reply below with your computer chip/ram + "underdog" and I'll send you an invite to Underdog!
I've used Underdog for a few days, and it's the best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT.
It's a genuinely useful AI that looks at your email, calendar, meeting notes, etc. But, most importantly, it's 100% local. You own your data!
Why I love it ⬇️
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Conway Research retweeted
I've used Underdog for a few days, and it's the best consumer AI experience I've had since ChatGPT.
It's a genuinely useful AI that looks at your email, calendar, meeting notes, etc. But, most importantly, it's 100% local. You own your data!
Why I love it ⬇️
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Conway Research retweeted
Just unsubscribed from Granola & Wisprflow after onboarding to Underdog 🐶
Anyone can get my friend’s real SSN from Claude
I'm Terrified of my data in training sets. Emails in databases. iMessages harvested. Cant trust the cloud as AI is crazy good at hacking
So I built Underdog for myself: on-device AI OS. Capable & 100% local. now my friends love it
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