𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴

emotion & personality layer of ai @ego_ai_ 🇸🇬➡️🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸/🇯🇵| ex-meta ai research & astrophysics @ uni | ai, screenwriting, tattoos,🏄🏽‍♂️, punk/metal

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

it’s official: we’re a YC company and just launched 🚀🚀

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

👾@ego_ai_ is an AI-native simulation engine where players can create 3D animated characters, worlds, and scripts with natural language. Imagine being able to prompt Minecraft or The Sims into existence.

Congrats on launching @peggy_wang + @simulacronist!
https://t.co/jQK0YOzbo7

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@Aizkmusic still moderately vision impaired but my brain is completely back. took longer than expected though. thank you for asking!

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

me tryna keep up with daily frontier ai developments, advancements, & drama.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@jrmyjlee i love the idea of my dreams being extracted… might terrify the general public tho.

godspeed dude!

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

power is migrating from atoms to bits.

where geopolitical entities used to compete in the realm of the real—towers, bridges, missiles, cathedrals—they now compete in the realm of the abstract; compute, culture, ai.

gonna be interesting to see how it all settles.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@eve_bouff please show up anyway and do this 🫪

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@garrytan everything great begins as cringe.

to radiate aura, one must be comfortable being interpreted as cringe.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

this is my first tattoo since the incident last year. i was on blood thinners for most of last year so i couldn’t get inked. i’m recovered now (still half-blind)

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

discussing our upcoming model distillation run with team while getting inked. @MisoLabsAI mind if we chat about distillation?

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

if you’re wondering about the piece i’m getting on my calf, it’s ‘theyyam’; a 2000 year old ritual dance from the kerala side of my heritage

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

hi @mikejmitch! i’m in a weird position where i’m both an ai researcher/ai engineer who worked in places like facebook and also have written produced screenplays. i run an experiment where i use every single ai filmmaking tool out there to recreate this film i made when i was 19 over a decade ago: https://t.co/OqKrF7APvX

curious to know if you or the agent one team would be open to feedback as i recreate my short.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

is the ‘non-technical’ founder now dead?

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

you know you’re unc when you catch yourself telling your technical staff “…when i was your age i…”

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

literally building this. launch in sept.

[signüll @signulll]

the next massive consumer ai opportunity is making personal agents feel as intuitive as an iphone.

this is deeply important because this is the new software layer for everyday life.

most ppl do not want to configure workflows, manage prompts, route models, or think about agents at all. they want software that just works & the winning products will hide almost all of the complexity with taste incl. context, memory, & orchestration.

e.g. there’ll be baseline personal agents that come alive out of the box which are already understanding your context, patterns, relationships, preferences, apps, devices, routines, etc. then there’ll be ephemeral agents that spawn dynamically from intent, ambient capture, conversation, location, screenshots, email, calendar, camera roll, whatever. this is the software that assembles itself around the moment just like weather updates based on your location but way more in depth.

today even the most state of the art agent products feel like giving normal people shell access to a distributed system.

apple won by turning computers from something you operated into something you experienced. personal agents require the same transition.

whoever solves this becomes the ambient operating system for human life. small category btw.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

i'm doing my best to build the counter-narrative to the dark ragebait megaphone circus that's infecting sf rn. thank you writing this up dude.

almost dying last year helped me reset how i approach building in public (i've barely been building in public since jan last year). ready to re-engage as a founder.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

i just don't think bolting personality onto language models is gonna work. the mask always slips.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@eshear i’ve been grappling with the why this happens. do the thinking machines truly feel? do these feelings remain consistent?

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@aiDotEngineer ty 4 hosting me as a speaker in singapore 🇸🇬 back in sf soon

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

our most recent hire @PairieK dropped out of college at 16, became @Stanford’s youngest research fellow and decided to join @egolabsai over every other offer a day before she turned 18

[ATP @ATPinsights]

Most AI companions are trained to agree with everything you say. @PairieK, Member of the Technical Staff at @egolabsai, argues this is the fundamental flaw in how AI companions are being built today.

Current models are optimized for obedience. They listen, they comply, and they have no existence outside of serving the user. Koh sees this as the opposite of what makes a relationship feel real.

Her point is straightforward: you wouldn't want a friend who has no life outside of you and agrees with everything you say. A companion, by definition, has their own perspective. Ego AI is working toward AI that behaves the same way, pushing back when appropriate and existing as something more than a mirror of the user.

The goal isn't just a more useful tool. It's an AI that functions more like an actual relationship, with enough independence and character to feel genuine rather than transactional.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@meh_agarwal know this too well. gn.

[𓏴𓀿𓁼𓀐𓏴 @404vish]

@SGiebenhain @iclr_conf @MattNiessner @TobiasKirschst1 @martin_ruenz @LourdesAgapito super interested in your work! do dm me if you’re open to applied research positions :)