Daniel George, the founder and CEO of AI firm TwinMind, has fairly the résumé.
He was part of a Nobel Prize-winning crew that labored on utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) to detect gravitational waves and black holes. He additionally labored on AI initiatives at firms together with Wolfram and Google X. Maybe most notably, he created an AI software that automated his personal job as a VP at JPMorgan, permitting him to spend a couple of years touring the globe.
And now, George counts himself as a startup founder, and he’s bringing his newest mission to the lots: TwinMind, an AI platform that “listens to every thing you do, say, and browse, and it’s all saved domestically and encrypted,” he says.
TwinMind will be downloaded as an app on an iPhone and capabilities like “JARVIS in your pocket.”
‘Proactive’ AI that runs your life?
Successfully, customers flip it on and might go away it working all day (in the event that they so select). The app listens to and digests the person’s environment, and produces end-of-day experiences or wrap-ups, capturing issues that you will have forgotten or missed. The whole lot is processed because it’s ingested and transcribed on the fly.
George claims that this helps with safety points, as audio isn’t truly saved or saved wherever. “All that’s saved are the ultimate outputs of the mannequin, for privateness concerns,” he says.
For iPhone customers, the mic icon will at all times show when the app is listening, and transcripts don’t truly establish “who mentioned what phrases precisely.”
Given how the app capabilities, nonetheless, it does appear attainable that folks might be caught within the background because the app is working with out understanding it. TwinMind says it encourages customers to ask for consent based on native legal guidelines.
TwinMind runs as an app on present {hardware} and shops info domestically, then makes use of what it learns to be “proactive” and surfaces related info for customers when and as wanted.
Attracting customers and Silicon Valley buyers
The app launched in late March and has already attracted hundreds of customers via phrase of mouth, George says.
It has additionally attracted the eye of Silicon Valley buyers, together with Anand Rajaraman, Dan Roth, and Michael Liou, who collectively had been a number of the earliest buyers in firms like Fb, Robinhood, and others. Knowledge from PitchBook clocked TwinMind’s valuation at $30 million final yr, whereas George says its newest valuation is $50 million.
George and his two cofounders, CTO Sunny Tang and chief scientist Mahi Karim, all met working at Google X. He says they’re now residing collectively in a Bay Space home whereas they construct and scale TwinMind, “working 100-hour weeks for the previous yr and a half.”
The app works in additional than 100 languages and, based on George, can run for greater than 12 hours with out sapping a smartphone’s battery, because it makes use of a big language mannequin (LLM) to course of speech immediately and produce a day by day “reminiscence,” or rundown, that resembles a bulleted memo comprising every session.
“It actually understands every thing you’ve gone via, everybody you recognize, and your values,” George says.
TwinMind’s app is on the market for obtain and is free to make use of. As for what’s subsequent, George says TwinMind is now planning a Sequence A funding spherical and for the primary time is talking with enterprise capital companies whereas the corporate grows. He says it’s amassed roughly 10,000 customers thus far.
“As soon as folks use it, they gained’t cease,” George predicts. “I can’t stay with out it.”
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