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- Conway Research unveils Underdog, a fully local AI assistant
Conway Research, a US AI startup founded about eight months ago, has shown Underdog, its first personal AI assistant, which runs entirely on the user's device and can work offline; it is still invite-only, with beta builds for Mac and Windows. The company said the project is backed by a16z, the Anthropic-Menlo Ventures investment group Anthology, and individual investors from Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face and elsewhere, without disclosing the amount. According to 智东西, Underdog uses a Saluki 27B model fine-tuned from Qwen3.8 27B plus a proprietary Husky inference engine, and Conway claims Woof 4B handles up to 730 tokens per second on a MacBook, 4.5x faster than Apple's MLX — figures that come from the company itself.
智东西 · 🔥 19 - Amazon drops data center NDAs as AI agents seek payment access
On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, the hosts discuss Amazon's decision to stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move by Microsoft earlier this year. They also cover a wave of personal AI agent startups that want access to users' inboxes, files and credit cards, plus Apple and other platforms tightening access for outside agents. Other items include Lambda's reported $4 billion raise and Uber's $2.3 billion deal for ezCater.
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