Vision

Personal Assistant Age

We believe we are in the early stage of a big shift: the arrival of the personal assistant. Over the next several years, we expect almost everyone will have one. It will order your dinner and buy your groceries, book your doctor’s appointments and clear your inbox, plan your trips and keep your calendar straight. It will work while you sleep, on call around the clock. And because it does all of this, it will come to know you better than almost anyone in your life — what you like, what you do each day, what you worry about.

Here is the part we think most people haven’t fully thought through: the same feature that makes the assistant useful is the one that makes it dangerous. To help with all of your life, it has to see all of your life and be woven deep into it — everything you do, online and off, runs through it. Day after day it accumulates information about you until it holds more than you could ever write down yourself.

So the whole thing comes down to one question: who owns all of that?

Big Tech Cannot Be Trusted

In our view, it cannot be the big technology companies. Your data is not just useful — it is power. And a personal assistant would concentrate far more of it than anything that exists today. Right now even the largest companies see only a slice of you — Amazon sees what you buy, Uber sees where you go, your bank sees what you spend — and no single one of them sees more than its own fragment. An assistant that runs your life sees all of it at once, every fragment joined into one complete picture of who you are. Whoever holds it can observe you, influence you, and steer your choices, and they can turn that power against you the moment what you want conflicts with what they want. If you hand that power to a few companies, your helper becomes your warden. We believe that is a threat both to your own freedom and to the free and democratic society we share. So this is not a small design choice. It is the whole game.

That leads to the one principle we will not bend on: your life belongs to you. In practice that means your data stays on your own computer, you give the orders, and you own everything your assistant does and everything it learns. No company can see it, and no government can take it.

PhysiClaw

PhysiClaw is our first step toward that principle. To be clear, it is early — rough, unfinished, and far from perfect. But it works. Today it already takes real weight off people’s minds by handling the small tasks on a phone that used to eat up hours. More important than what it does, though, is what it proves: that a useful assistant can be built in the open and owned by you, not rented to you and controlled by a company.

We also believe this cannot be a privilege for the few, so we build it and make all of it open — the hardware and the agent both. Anyone can build one. The only cost is the parts. We designed the hardware around standard, off-the-shelf parts — cheap, reliable, and easy to find — so almost anyone can afford one. One assistant per person, owned by no monopoly, with no one shut out and no one left holding another person’s data.

The Last Gap

Even so, the assistant is not yet entirely yours. The hardware is in your hands. The agent runs on your own computer, and its code is yours to read and change. But the mind it thinks with does not run there. Today PhysiClaw is driven by a large vision-language model, and the strongest of these are too big to fit on the computer in your home. So to use it, your assistant has to send your life to a server you don’t own — which means the rule we set, that no company sees your life, is not yet fully kept. This is the last place where big tech still sits inside the loop.

To close that gap, we think we need a different kind of model: small enough to own, strong enough to reason on its own. Not a giant store of everything ever written in human history, but a sharp and simple core — the ability to think, to plan, and to act. This is what’s called a world model. It gives up the trivia and endless memorized detail that routine work never needs, and keeps only what matters: the power to reason. Knowledge can be loaded when a task calls for it; the reasoning stays at the center. Strip away the rest and the model gets small enough for everyone to own.

The Road Ahead

AI models today are like the computers of the 1960s — room-sized, expensive, locked away, and owned by the few. We expect them to travel the same road the computer did: from the mainframe to the personal machine, from the few to everyone. They will be smaller, cheaper, and yours, getting stronger each year. This will not come from scaling them further. We expect a new training paradigm — one that learns to reason, rather than just to predict the next token and compress the entire internet into its weights, the way current models do.

An AI model small enough to run entirely on a consumer computer — its power consumption low, its weights small enough to fit in your computer’s memory — would be more than an economic change. It would help preserve the freedom we have long fought for. A free society depends on ordinary people having enough power to check the few at the top. If a handful of companies own the strongest minds, that balance breaks: they gain great power over everyone who relies on them. If everyone can own one instead, the power stays spread out. A mind held by a few can be used to control people; a mind in everyone’s hands keeps that from happening.

When that day comes, the loop is finally whole. Everything the assistant learns, everything it does, and the mind it thinks with — all of it yours, owned by you and answering to you, held by no one else.

We are building a personal assistant that answers to you and no one else — owned by you, within reach of everyone, and beyond the control of any company or government. That is how we stay free.