The rate of AI progress is incredible - we now have AI that can generate text, images, videos, songs, write code, and do a million other things. Then I look at social media - I see so much AI generated slop. We have rocks that can talk back - and this is what we choose to do with it? Generate slop that wires us to consume this content? No, AI has to serve a better purpose.
I started out building an AI that's there to listen - that understands you, grows with you, and helps you live a better life. But using it, I realized that I don't need an AI friend for the sake of it. I instead want an infinitely patient, all-knowing entity to help me lead a better life. That's why I built Maia - this is an AI that understands what you want to do, remembers patterns, calls you out when you're slipping, and nudges you to be the best version of yourself.
You can have a trainer for physical fitness, why not have one for mental fitness which is arguably a lot more important?
So I built an AI that remembers and maintains one continuous conversation forever. But memory alone wasn't enough - the real unlock was giving it the ability to notice patterns and reach out proactively with ideas, suggestions, nudges.
