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
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Fable 5 Came Back, But the Precedent Stayed
Anthropic restored Fable 5 after US export controls were lifted, but the bigger lesson is that frontier model access now has a review loop.
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Meta Turning AI Compute Into Cloud Is the New Gravity
Meta's reported plan to sell excess AI compute shows the AI race shifting from model demos to who can monetize data centers before the bill arrives.
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Sakana Fugu Sells the Thing Export Controls Created
Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's Tulongfeng show how quickly frontier access restrictions become a market signal for regional AI alternatives.
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GPT-5.6 Shows Frontier Access Becoming Conditional
OpenAI's reported GPT-5.6 limited rollout is another sign that paid access to closed frontier AI may no longer mean equal access to the frontier.
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GLM-5.2 Is the Counterargument to Gated Frontier Access
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 release matters because open weights, a 1M-token context, and an MIT license make frontier dependency less fragile for builders.
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OpenAI's Jalapeno Chip Is About Owning the Whole Stack
OpenAI's first custom Broadcom inference chip shows frontier AI labs becoming full-stack infrastructure companies, not just model providers.
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GitHub Put AI Credit Burn Into The Copilot Metrics API
GitHub's per-user AI credit metric shows agent cost control is becoming an enterprise observability problem, not just billing noise.
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DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Risk
Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap is a signal that agent safety is moving from alignment slogans into security architecture.