"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.

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