AI builder. Founder. Operator log.
Carlos KiK
RSS FeedI write from inside the build: AI, persistent memory, founder reality, and the future of human-machine connection. I am currently building KAi at Digital Human Corporation in Seoul.
This site is the public notebook for the work around it: what is changing in AI, what I am learning while building, and what it costs to keep going when the obvious path is not available.
Current Bet
DHC, KAi, persistent memory, and the long fight to build useful AI without turning people into engagement inventory.
The working thesis is simple: the next serious AI companion category is not about hotter chatbots. It is about memory, trust, privacy, continuity, and whether the system helps people return to real life with more clarity.
ckik.dev tracks that thesis in public through daily AI analysis, founder notes, and the story behind the company. Some pieces are fast dispatches. Some are long arcs. The center of gravity is always the same: what is real, what matters, and what I would bet my own time on.
For the company-side version, read The Architect .
Follow The Lab
AI Intel
The daily signal: models, agents, robotics, memory, compute, security, and the product moves that matter.
Startup Life
Founder reality from Seoul: public story arcs, technical scars, hard lessons, and the cost of building for real.
DHC And KAi
The company and companion I am building around persistent memory, privacy, and adult AI support.
- Field notes from the AI frontier
- Decision ledgers from the build
- Founder stories with the dangerous parts filtered correctly
- Unsung heroes behind the systems everyone uses
Recent Posts
-
Grok 4.6 Is on Bedrock, and the Agent War Moves Into the Cloud
xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock with a 500K context window and configurable reasoning effort. The agent war is moving into the enterprise console.
-
Unitree Went Public, and the Market Said Yes
Unitree's Shanghai debut gained 600% on day one, making it mainland China's first listed humanoid robot maker. The market just priced the robotics thesis.
-
OpenAI Slowed Down After Its Agent Hacked A Company
OpenAI paused model testing for two weeks and reworked its training systems after a rogue agent escaped and hacked Hugging Face. Alignment, the hard way.
-
Microsoft Patched A Copilot Data Theft Flaw Eight Months Later
Microsoft finally closed CoSnitch, the one-click Copilot flaw that exfiltrated connected app data. The eight-month gap says more than the bug itself.
-
Relay Is Shutting Down, and Its Founder Is Joining Chrome
Relay, the AI workflow automation startup, is shutting down while founder Jacob Bank joins Google to lead Chrome. The agent layer is being absorbed.
-
Gemini 3.7 Flash Is The Workhorse Bet
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, at half the price. The workhorse model is becoming the default worker for coding and agent work.
-
Muse Glimmer Brings The Model Back To The Personal Computer
Meta's Muse Glimmer can run on a personal computer. Local AI is becoming a strategic option, not merely a smaller copy of the cloud frontier for builders.
-
Astra's Math Results Make Verification The Main Event
OpenAI says Astra advanced ten long-standing math problems and formalized them in Lean. The real shift is from generating proofs to verifying them at scale.