Jolla, the former mobile phone manufacturer, became the AI-through the starter sister, Enho.ai -I has taken the wrapper from an AI assistant who says it is a “fully private” alternative to giant clouds that have extracted data that crawls on all your personal information.
The AI assistant is designed to be integrated with applications such as email, calendar and social media accounts to provide the user an electric conversation tool that can impose information, but also to perform actions on behalf of the user. This means things like summarizing emails and documents, detention meetings, filtering social media feeds and making web searching.
But they say that the tool will also be able to rotate new AI agents in flight to extend further utility, since the necessary API keys are available. An AI Agent market is also part of the project scheduled for the start of the next month.
Elsewhere, he leans to the idea of AI assistant as helping markets and personal assistant – which means that the user could, for example, help to investigate potential markets or send AI notes for the things he wants to remember on their behalf – saving information about the future, data.
The AI Assistant software is not standing on its own. The “Jolla with Venho” team develops privately owned AI material in the past year-technologies we have previously referred to as “Ai Agents in a Box”-which also addresses this vision of the extremely personalized AI convenience without privacy.
Their approach is based on the leverage of smaller AI models that can be hosted locally to manage many of the user data work, along with the pre -treatment and a database that consolidates the data from their connected accounts to accelerate the user’s experience at the query level.
Incoming AI Assistant Incoming software aims to sit at the top of all these Backend Data orchestras and to automatically automate the rotation between different AI factors, as required by users’ requirements.
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Giving TechCrunch an exclusive preview of AI incoming technology here at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade fair in Barcelona, co -founder Antti Saarnio and Jolla Veteran Sami Pienimäki claims that the use of Serware and How Weat We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We We Wew We will be used We will we will we will we will we will we will we wears Untrralized ai.
They point out their long history of mobile materials and developing functional ingredients (sailing) and Android applications integration – arguing that this gives them a foot in such a race.
“There is a massive cognitive burden coming right now because of AI. And I think we need help to filter things,” Saarnio says, suggesting that the AI assistant will become a key tool to cut the noise. “It’s your own tool – you have this tool.”
The AI Assistant software – presented with the Mindy brand, an avatar with a female appearance and feel, but which users will be able to customize their own tastes – starts millions as a subscription service hosted in a private cloud operated by Venho.ai.
In a demo, TechCrunch saw Saarnio interacting with the assistant AI running on his laptop-replenishing questions through a conversation type interface and getting the answers back as text and speech. Asked what emails he has, with the addition of e -mail -related tasks to a list of obligations. And took AI to close a meeting reception. (Note: It is also possible to speak questions to the assistant.)
There was initially a little pause before the first answer returned, but the following answers were faster. Saarnio also noted that they work for further acceleration and optimization – with the aim of reducing the response rate in one second.
A web search query that tried to demo – asking AI to get information about a company – failed to return the pursuit of data, but Saarnio then said that this was due to the fact that the laptop was not connected to the internet, which means that API Google Search was not working.
In addition to offering assistant AI through his own private cloud, the tool will be available next month to Mind2 Jolla AI – which the team sends to the first adopted from January.
This means that Mind2 owners will be able to accommodate the AI assistant in this personal server style material-editing the need to use any third-party cloud service to keep their data (even the “private cloud” placed by Venho). Certainly when it comes to questions that can be executed in small AI models housed inside the device-which include Deepseek’s 1.5 billion parameters and the Meta Llama Llama 1 billion Llama per Saarnio.
“He is capable of understanding and giving you the right answers – what emails do you have, what is the content – then he doesn’t make huge mistakes. But if you give him a huge environment of environment [such as uploading a large document to query] It is confused, “he says, explaining when the device may need to head to someone else’s cloud for answers.
More questions with intense processing can require technology to take advantage of large linguistic models (LLMS)-where privacy promises must fall away from the user’s data exposed to someone else’s T&Cs. But having a chat assistant sitting at the top of the system, the suggestion is that users will be able to command AI how they want to work for them – as they say, telling the assistant to never send health information to LLMS – further adapting their comfort experience to their comfort zone.
Early bird pricing for the AI assistant (first 1,000 users) is set at $ 10 per month (after a free 14-day trial)-but the final price will be about $ 20 a month per Saarnio. (For those who buy the Jolla material as well as the 16GB memory, 128GB memory Mind 2 The device has a full price label of € 699, although the team still offers a discount price for the first adopters.)
During the year since we arrived last and personally with Jolla’s material, the gadget that has now increased in size. Per pienimäki, its imprint increased (now about the size of a small, thick paper) is mostly under the heat management requirements – with the box packing a larger heat sink and other heat management components alongside the processing material.
The final assembly of the kit takes place in Finland, in a former Nokia installation in Salo, he also notes, which at least holds a tempting possibility that efforts to start the regenerated may have the opportunity to revive the former Finnish technological glory. (Reminder: OS Sailfish was developed as a fork of an abandoned Nokia software project by former executives.)
So far, about 500 Mind 2 devices have been sent to early adopted – with the team playing interest from the Sailfish enthusiastic community. Saarnio also says they also get useful comments and help with errors from these first adopters through a disagreement community. “I would recommend it to any start,” the approach notes.
And while in the company of selling the kit and the relevant services themselves, they also believe that there is an interesting B2B opportunity that is just starting.
Indeed, Saarnio says there were some telcos who saw the ability to provide material to offer a home solution that could work well for many family members living under the same roof-in other words, “it is like a private Amazon Alexa”, as Pienimäki puts it ” of Ai, “” Saarnio adds.
