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great high effort answer, thanks so much!

to prod you to sell yourself a bit more - what is the goal/selling point of cnvrs?




Oh man I’m a big fan, swyx!! Latent Space & AI.engineer are fantastic resources to the community. Thank you for the kind words & the prompt!

It’s still early days, but at a high level, I have a few goals: - expand accessibility and increase awareness of the power & viability of small models — the scene can be quite impenetrable for many! - provide the an easy to use, attractive, efficient app that’s a good platform citizen, taking full advantage of Apple’s powerful device capabilities; - empower more people to protect their private conversation data, which has material value to large AI companies; - incentivize more experimentation, training & fine-tuning efforts focused on small, privately-runnable models.

I’d love to one day become your habitual ChatGPT alternative, as high a bar as that may be.

I have some exciting ideas, from enabling a user generated public gallery of characters; to expanding into multimodal use cases, like images & speech; composing larger workflows on top of LLMs, similar to Shortcuts; grounding open models against web search indices for factuality; and further out, more speculative ideas, including exposing tools like JavaScriptCore to models as a tool, like Python in ChatGPT’s code interpreter.

But I’m sure you’ve also given a lot of thought to the future of AI on device with smol — what are some dreams you have for truly private AI that’s always with you?


i dont dream of truly private ai like that haha. im a pretty open book. but very very glad to see more options in the local ai space!




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