Not just fortune.
Not just money.
This year, choose connection.
May your days feel less lonely,
and your moments feel shared.
That’s the kind of luck a companion brings.
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧
Most AI companies compete on model performance.
That’s a race to zero.
The real moat is private intelligence layered over iconic IP.
Models can be replicated.
User memory cannot.
The next AI giants won’t just be smart.
They’ll be irreplaceable.
Some people seem to be forget, even in crypto markets like this, its a great humbling to go back to fundamentals.
My @Kindred_AI team and I are still grinding away, unaffected whatsoever by the market.
Our IP partnerships continue to be announced, many delving head first into web3 AI with us.
We're going to be building for the next 5-10 years, you think a bad token weekend or month is going to matter in the long run?
But yes, I think its about damn time we get the desktop app out there. Updates soon, ONLY UP FROM HERE :)
Companionship Belongs Where You Live
The desktop is where your life already happens:
work, messages, plans, late-night tabs.
So why is companionship trapped inside apps?
We’re building characters that live where you live.
We’re excited to share that Kindred will be one of the first projects on Kaito Studio @KaitoAI
Early KOLs and content creators can apply starting early next week.
Details coming.
𝗤𝗔 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆.
At Kindred, QA means pushing the companion beyond normal use, not just checking if it works.
We constantly challenge Pudgy’s screen understanding with complex, messy context.
This is part of our QA process on the desktop app.
Sometimes we try to break it.
Sometimes that’s exactly when it shows us how capable it really is.
Q: What does it take to make an AI feel visually alive?
A: Thousands of carefully crafted and thoughtful decisions, day in, day out.
Our lead animator, Ken, demonstrates the hundreds of individual micro-animations that make up our visual companion system. Each limb, facial expression, and 360 movement can be real-time dynamically adjusted, resulting in our Kindred companion AI having complete autonomy over their visual expressions & behavior.