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building an ambient ai that knows your email, calendar, finances, health, & location (aka your entire fucking life) means we're staring down three really really hard problems: 1. privacy. we're asking for the most sensitive data on your phone. & obviously trust us isn't good enough. every company says that. we need to make our privacy posture architecturally legible with real structural constraints on what we can do with your data. this is the existential challenge & we're going to be obsessively transparent about how we approach it. e.g. we built an ai agent in production that monitors audit logs, & alerts *you* the user with a push notification if anyone besides the system or you accesses your data. we'll experiment here way more around creative mechanics of ensuring user trust. 2. cost. ambient means always on. always on means continuous inference. sophisticated inference isn't cheap, especially when your ai agent needs real reasoning to decide what matters to you right now or to figure out how to complete your reminder task. model costs are dropping fast but the economics of running a personal intelligence layer for every user is a problem we have to design around from day one. we have several business model ideas esp some creative ones around "premium agents". i'll post about this soon. 3. relevance. for skye surfacing the right thing at the right time is the whole product. what matters to you at 7am monday vs 9pm friday is completely different. we have an ai agent managing feed ranking today.. it's good, but it's expensive, & getting this right across millions of lives with varying signal density is a challenge. we're solving these in public. more soon on each but insanely fascinating problems to deal with. most labs have very different things like focused on improving benchmarks etc. we have to focus on primitives.

@im_roy_lee we will definitely have customization of visuals & fonts!

here's my two cents on this as a random gen z kid first impression: i only wanna see this sort of font when i open duolingo or candy crush, not 24/7 when im on my phone. feels too silly. when you're taking a swing so big as to change the entire default ux of an iphone, you need mass consumer adoption to win and can't get away with just being a prosumer tool so, here's my thoughts on every single proposed feature as it relates to me: - reading list: i read maybe 2 books a year, which is 2 more than 99% of my friends. - personalized weather: i rarely open the weather app bc i don't care that much and would never even opt for a "weather app widget" much less a daily notification about it on my home screen - drafts email replies: before starting company, i literally had ~zero use for my email, much less drafting emails of my own. i consistently wonder how useful this will be to non-prosumers as a primary data source - prepares you for meetings & trips: think this is personally more nifty than necessary, but this potentially seems like a more useful feature. ie if im going to the beach and never bought sunscreen, would it try and remind me of that? feels too good to be true based on current llms, but that could be cool - suspicious charges: i feel this problem is completely solved for me with just an email from my bank. my cards never get stolen - reminders: i never use the reminder app because i am too lazy to type in a reminder and arrogantly assume that i can just remember to do the thing - tracks your health: i'm most interested to see this. a problem i have with all "AI" health apps is that i don't wanna see a dashboard + score + chatbot; i want something that actually gets me out of the door and taking steps or going to the gym, which is definitely doable with llm - one tap intel on wherever you are: my particular use case i got excited about is that i would personally love some sort of agent that proactively suggests events i or a girlfriend might find interesting. tickets just dropped for a rave of an artist someone im talking to likes? i would like to know + buy i am very interested to try it, this is exciting and more net new than 99% of consumer ai tech i've seen

excited to share what we have been up to. your iphone’s home screen hasn’t changed in ~20 years. it’s the same static grid of icons since launch with zero awareness of your actual life. @skye is a new agentic home screen for iphone. no telegram. no mac mini. & no claws required. skye is ambient intelligence that just works. it continuously listens to your context & acts on it. it builds your reading lists, gives you personalized weather, drafts email replies, prepares you for meetings & trips, flags suspicious charges, works through your reminders, tracks your health, & gives you one tap intel on wherever you are (restaurants, museums, neighborhoods, etc). all surfaced on your home screen. over the next few posts i’ll break down how it works, why we built it, & why we think it deserves to exist in the world. beta starts today. if you’re on the list, you’ll get access very soon. app store shortly after. deeply appreciate you all following along on this fun little journey. also please join our discord !

we are so so close.

@ludoviknight hell no! if we ever release anything related to dating you have the right to sue us.

thanks for following early on this beautiful little journey.

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