🚀 Big news! We’re launching Shinkai Desktop (Mac, Windows and Linux) today — the most user friendly App to run AI locally (free + open source!) and a Testnet with CoinList of the Shinkai Decentralized Network (Knowledge + Agents (very soon™️)). More 👇

2/ First the goodies: Download Shinkai Understanding Shinkai Coinlist Link Now let's continue with Shinkai, what it is and why

3/ Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new hype, and unlike other trends that have overshot their potential, the AI industry is moving at great speed and is likely here to stay. Most industries will evolve, and personally, we will be more capable with AI.

4/ An AI looking out for us would be extremely helpful in organizing our lives, making better financial decisions, keeping up with friends, and more. However, for AI to reach that degree of integration, it needs access to our lives, conversations, apps, financial services, etc.

5/ There is the option to give all that information to one company like OpenAI, and many might be okay with that. But for those who value privacy and ownership of their data, Shinkai aims to cover that need. And it's completely free.

6/ What is Shinkai? Shinkai is an advanced platform that runs on your computer and can locally use the best available open-source AI models to answer questions, access files, navigate the web, take audio notes, generate graphics, and more.

7/ Shinkai can analyze videos, your crypto holdings, help you understand medical records before a visit, navigate new medical research, give updates on financial holdings, help plan trips and dates, perform periodic tasks, and more.

8/ You can even share your screen with your local AI without sending any data to anyone; everything happens locally. We believe a platform like this will be extremely helpful. By making it free and easy to install, it will be accessible to anyone.

9/ AI models are trained with specific data that’s up-to-date until the AI finishes its training, but they can become outdated. Additionally, AI models can be accurate for common topics but might "hallucinate" for more technical or long-tail topics.

10/ That’s why we are empowering every Shinkai App with access to a decentralized network, where you can subscribe to different channels to automatically download and update your AI models for extended knowledge.

11/ For users concerned about the authenticity of the information, we are implementing cryptographic proofs (zk-MPC protocol based on TLS Notary) that streamers can make available with their subscriptions.

12/ Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Shinkai: we are working towards agentic capabilities. This means we orchestrate (locally) your AI with all necessary tools and flows so you can teach and command your AI to do tasks for you.

13/ Initially, the level of reasoning will be low, but as AI models improve, Shinkai will automatically get better because its infrastructure is made compatible with upgrades.

14/ We are also working towards offering a decentralized network of agents that can perform tasks or specific sub-tasks for you or your AI while providing proofs of computation.

15/ You might wonder if AI models could exceed common computer specifications, but that is already changing. NVIDIA has grown substantially in value because AI requires specific types of chips that only NVIDIA is currently designing.

16/ However, competitors and new entrants see this as extremely profitable. Companies like Intel, AMD, and others focused on hardware for mobile devices, such as Qualcomm, are rushing to provide AI capabilities to every single device.

17/ We are working towards making Shinkai the most powerful fully local AI platform that looks as simple as your average app.

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