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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Ox Alpha Is a Frontier Model Nobody Will Claim. That Silence Is the Story.
OpenRouter listed an anonymous frontier model called Ox Alpha with a 1M context, video input, and a free week. Four anonymous models before it were all claimed by Chinese labs.
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Nevada Just Approved Up to 8,000 Robotaxis. The Ceilings Tell the Real Story.
Nevada approved permits letting Tesla, Waymo, and Uber operate up to 8,000 robotaxis in Las Vegas. The permit ceilings and the companies' own testimony reveal how far the rollout really is.
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Pew Says 10% of the Web Is Written by AI. Since ChatGPT, It's 35%.
Pew Research found roughly 10% of web pages show signs of AI authorship, rising to 35% among pages published since ChatGPT launched. The .com web is the most AI-written corner.
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Binance Let AI Agents Trade Real Money. It Put the Brakes on the User.
Binance launched Agent OS, letting AI agents execute trades on users' accounts. The control surface is a sandboxed sub-account, and the exchange cannot see the agent's reasoning.
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Meta Wants Your Mac to Talk to Your Apps
Meta shipped a Mac app with system-wide dictation and screen awareness, plus integrations that read your ad accounts and Google Workspace. Dictation is the wedge, business is the point.
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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.
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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.
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Anthropic Passed OpenAI in Q2 Revenue. The Profit Line Is the Real News.
Anthropic's Q2 revenue hit $11.5B, passing OpenAI's $6.7B for the first time. But the first positive adjusted operating income at a frontier lab is the bigger story.