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.@0xSigil reveals testing frontier AI's cyber capabilities scared him enough to start moving his personal data off data centers and onto his own devices:
"There is going to be a radical reformation of the economy as businesses and the economy shift to serving agents as one of its newest users on the internet, especially as humans trust AIs more to act on their behalf."
"We were working on agents that could run on long horizon harnesses, and we were also testing different frontier models, and it was just really scarily apparent just how good at cyber they were."
"It was really clear to me that, oh my God, Mythos class models are open source now. I think that really led to me wanting to build Underdog for myself."
"I wanna bring my data onto my devices, off of data centers, which are some of the biggest targets."
@underdogdotai @ConwayResearch
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.
.@0xSigil says advertising is a "boomer legacy business model" that breaks once AI agents start shopping for us:
"As humans trust agents to transact on their behalf, the entire economy of the internet shifts. You no longer have to follow these predatory business practices like advertising."
"Underdog can, within a couple seconds, scan the price of a flight across every major website on the internet, find the cheapest price, and then generate a new virtual card to get it for you."
"Advertising is such a boomer legacy business model. Agents are rational. They're just gonna choose whatever's cheapest, whatever is the best, and they can do it effortlessly because they could scan the whole internet for it."
"Businesses are going to have to adapt to the fact that consumers are using agents to act on their behalf, and they aren't susceptible to advertising."
@underdogdotai @ConwayResearch
.@0xSigil on "Underdog’s Law," where local AI on your MacBook can already outperform frontier models OpenAI and Anthropic released just 6 months ago:
"Underdog is your private personal AI that runs on devices that you already own. There should be no trade-off between privacy and capability."
"I've really been tracking the Pareto frontier of AI models, and I've noticed this pattern where now the frontier models that could run on your devices and can fit on your MacBook can be more powerful than the frontier models that OpenAI, Anthropic released from more than six months ago."
"I call that Underdog's Law, where the frontier models from today you will be able to bring to devices that run fully privately and locally."
@underdogdotai @ConwayResearch
Conway Research retweeted
the first personal AI assistant that's investing heavily in security, instead of just collecting rubber stamps.
our team is hacking it every day. goat @0xSigil
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.
Conway Research retweeted
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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…
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-…
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
Yes, underdog is coming to NVIDIA/Windows/Linux/iOS devices next week
Sign up at underdog.ai
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
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
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?
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