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Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet
Publisher description: Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley's who-who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
TechCrunch | Oct 6, 2026 | Julie Bort
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When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. Wen built Husky, an inference engine, or software that runs AI models, and Husky is designed to run fast. In this way, the AI assistant never has to mine your data.
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