media attention<\/a> after its first client, the terminally ill Michael Bommer, revealed how he worked with Eternos to create a digital replica of himself after spending 25 hours talking to Eternos about his life, interests, and worldview.<\/p>\nLoCascio was set on building a legacy business, but what surprised him was that most of the people considering using Eternos weren\u2019t preparing for death.<\/p>\n
Eternos developed the Human Life Model (HLM) \u2014 a framework that uses only an individual\u2019s data, rather than general LLM data, to capture their unique values, life story, and decision-making traits. LoCascio saw an opportunity to use this technology to help individuals create personal AIs for professional and personal use.<\/p>\n
The company announced Tuesday it has rebranded as Uare.ai and raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started to realize that the big models, they\u2019re taking our datasets, and they\u2019re getting smarter because of us,\u201d LoCascio told TechCrunch. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to take that path. You own the model, and you can share it and monetize it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The vision for Uare.ai is to be a scaling tool for creators and professionals. Since the personal AI models hold the individual\u2019s full expertise, a digital replica can be put to work to generate content, handle customer interactions, and even execute projects.<\/p>\n
Once Uare.ai\u2019s platform launches later this year, individuals will be able to start training their HLMs by responding to Uare.ai questions about their lives using text, voice, and even video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first part is getting a human life story. Where\u2019d you come from? Tell me a story about your childhood. What\u2019s a crossroad in your life when you were younger?\u201d LoCascio said.<\/p>\n
Uare.ai then asks the person to submit additional facts about their life, including information about their profession. \u201cWe blend the facts with this human life story, and that gives us your model,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Unlike Character.ai and other chatbots, Uare.ai\u2019s model won\u2019t turn to general LLMs to fill the gaps about anything that\u2019s not in HLM. \u201cOur AIs will say, I don\u2019t know if they can\u2019t answer the question,\u201d LoCascio said.<\/p>\n
Uare.ai intends to generate revenue through subscription fees or take a share of the revenue generated by customers who earn income from their digital twins.<\/p>\n
Another startup developing personal AIs is Sequoia-backed Delphi<\/a>, which has attracted people with large followings, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, and enables others to interact with his replicated knowledge via voice or text.<\/p>\nNavin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield, believes Uare.ai stands out from competitors because it targets individual professionals like CPAs. Plus, it has LoCascio, a very successful entrepreneur at the helm, he told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, after nearly three decades as CEO of the company he founded, Robert LoCascio stepped down as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,150953,70075,37541,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-286561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-boldstart","12":"tag-digital-twin","13":"tag-mayfield","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}