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I'm not dismissing them. I'm saying they're not there yet. As a startup, we have to prioritize. We can't do everything simultaneously, and it would be a substantial engineering effort to have a dual architecture as well as potentially more security holes. And the amount of people that want to run local LLMs is very small. I use local LLMs when I'm on flights, and that is my personal assessment. They are all benchmark-maxed and incapable of reliable tool calling or consistency over meaningfully long conversations.

We will for sure, but the issue is that without local LLMs, there's no way to offer a truly fully local version. And the local LLMs are dumb. So basically, you would still need to trust the LLM providers. Totally understand that this is a deal breaker for some people, but for many users, the theoretical risk is worth it. We do regular security audits, encrypt in transit and at rest, pen tests, etc.

Littlebird is a desktop app that remembers everything you’ve been working on. Meetings, messages, docs, browsing, etc. It helps you stay focused, prioritize, recall, and move projects forward. Unlike any product on the market today, Littlebird uses screenreading to understand all the text on screen, for all applications, without any cumbersome setup. It understands who said what, when, and keeps track of your projects in great detail. It uses that context to build a rich understanding of your life: who matters to you, what you're working on, and what you care about this week and this year. It extends your working memory and your capacity to think and create.

You control what Littlebird sees, what it remembers, and what it forgets. We designed Littlebird to be private, secure, and user-controlled by default.

Hi all, I'm Alex, one of the founders at Littlebird. AMA!

Happy to help. I'm Alex Green–the creator of the Sugar Cubes and co-founder of Symmetry Labs.

To your question about how the Sugar Cubes work:

First of all, the game-powered-by-bikes installation at the Super Bowl is a custom game we developed for the Fan Zone at Super Bowl City. Light Cycle is a two-minute interactive light installation experience where players physically generate energy with bikes and hand cranks. It's built from the Sugar Cubes, which are modular cubes that can be reconfigured in any shape and are driven by our proprietary software. (We have built everything from stage sets for live shows and music videos to a giant Cube chandelier for The Foo Fighters last year.)

The Cubes are wired with addressable LED strips and they can display practically any pattern–usually synced with music. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm within our custom software allows the person running the Cubes drive animations using the various frequencies in the music. The cubes can also react to midi input. The structure itself is modeled so that each LED acts as a pixel within a 3D dimensional canvas.

If you get to stop by Super Bowl City in SF, you can play with the Cubes in real-time. (They'll be there until Super Bowl Sunday.) Or you can go to the Symmetry Labs website, play with a simulator, and pretend to be a genre-defying DJ :)

Happy to answer more questions about how the Cubes work! They’re the love of my life right now, the technical possibilities are practically endless, and we have exciting plans to use them in many new ways in the future.