Description limit with constant demands and stimuli taking us from one place to another, making it extremely difficult to recall our own experiences to make decisions. These experiences encoded in people, facts, thoughts, and emotions, all influence the actions we take and the behavior we exhibit every day, yet we have trouble even recalling the majority of it. In fact, people forget 80% of what they create and what they consume.
Personal.ai, a startup based out of San Diego, is building a technology to combat this. Formerly called Luther.ai, the company has been operating for more than a year building an AI extension of human memory, to enable individuals to create their personal AI to expand the potential of their biological memory. It is a consumer-first AI product that services the real needs of regular people by helping them forget less and recall more. Through Personal.ai, individuals are empowered to build an AI that is unique to them: each individual’s personal AI will enhance productivity, reduce anxiety and improve relationships.
Having a digital long term memory, one that is authentic to the way you remember things, can change the very paradigm by which humans interact with machines, and become as important to daily life as the same tech already is to everyday business. Think Black Mirror meets Altered Carbon. Early adopters will create their AI’s simply with the idea of saving the version of themself in the cloud and that it will have future value. In other words, Personal AI will not only be a utility but will also be a brand statement for many people.
In the words of Personal.ai’s founders, Suman Kanuganti, Sharon Zhang, Kristie Kaiser, and Marc Ettlinger, “You are not the product, the product is the product.” They are backed by their lead investor David Magerman from Differential VC in its seed round of $5.9 million. Other investors include BBG Ventures, Village Global VC, Jane street capital, Beni VC, Keshif Ventures, Good Friends VC, and individual investors such as Kelvin Beachum and Jeff Foster.