An open ecosystem for Personal AI

Liberty.Equality.Data.

Liberty. Change models, providers and jurisdictions without starting over.

Equality. The person at the center, on shared and open standards.

Data. The personal layer itself, owned by the individual.

An open ecosystem built around six Personal AI freedoms. Not features on a roadmap. Freedoms that any implementation, including our own, can be held to.

The unanswered questions

AI is becoming personal. The questions that follow have not been answered.

Who owns the relationship?

As AI becomes personal, someone will own that personal context. The person, the AI company, the cloud provider or the device maker. This question defines the next phase of AI.

Who decides where it runs?

People, organizations and governments increasingly want control over where their data lives and which legal jurisdiction protects it. Personal AI that cannot answer this will not earn lasting trust.

Can people stay independent?

Can you adopt a better model without starting over? Move between cloud providers? Survive technology shifts? Independence is becoming as important as capability.

Six Personal AI Freedoms

These are not features. They are the freedoms a personal layer has to protect.

  1. 01

    Freedom to choose your AI

    The model serving a person is a choice they make, not one the platform makes for them.

  2. 02

    Freedom to control your personal data

    What is stored, remembered, shared and forgotten is decided by the person it describes.

  3. 03

    Freedom to choose where your data lives

    Region, infrastructure and legal jurisdiction are choices, not defaults set somewhere else.

  4. 04

    Freedom to use local or cloud AI

    Running privately on your own device or at scale in the cloud is the same personal layer.

  5. 05

    Freedom to switch providers

    Leaving must be as practical as joining, or none of the other freedoms are real.

  6. 06

    Freedom to keep your Personal AI over time

    A person's context should outlive the company, the model generation and the device that started it.

Read the charter of freedoms

Who builds it

Personal AI cannot be built alone. No single participant is the center.

People

Individuals who control and use their Personal AI.

Researchers

Explore models, memory, safety and novel approaches.

Developers

Build integrations and applications on the personal layer.

Organizations

Contribute trusted Personal AI experiences to their users.

Infrastructure

Regional clouds and operators providing sovereign deployment.

Souvéa

The founding contribution: a working reference platform, today.

This already exists

The invitation is real because the foundation is already running.

Souvéa is a fully functioning Personal AI platform, already in use, built around personal context, user control and an open architecture. It is the ecosystem's founding contribution and the reference platform partners can pilot on today.

See the reference platform
Abstract light trails representing a personal data layer

Founding members help define the direction, not adopt it once it is finished.

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