Chennai-Based Startup Behind First AI University Professor Launches Personal AI Home Studio

In what could potentially redefine the current use of personal AI assistants, a Chennai and Singapore-based start-up HaiVE will be launching HaiVE AI Studio this weekend.

Speaking to AIM ahead of its launch, HaiVE co-founder Arjun Reddy asked what if you had something similar to Plex but for AI? “Imagine being able to do that for AI. We have created a tool that you can install on your laptop or desktop. Once you are signed up and signed in, your home PC is the one running the AI server, so when you’re outside on your phone, you can question and talk to your own home AI server,” he said.

With GPUs becoming increasingly powerful, Reddy said that any laptop with a discrete GPU could run the server efficiently. “Because it is your own home server, you can throw in really sensitive information into it in the RAG folder that we give you,” he said.

Interestingly, HaiVE was also the startup behind Malar, the first-ever autonomous AI university professor in the world. Currently, the startup has plans to forge a partnership with the Mauritius government in allowing the use of Malar for all their university students.

HaiVE specialises in on-premise AI solutions, working with businesses and companies in order to help set up their own servers, without having to rely on cloud services. They're also working with universities in India to help create digital twins of professors to help teach students even during off hours.

Taking that to the next level seemed like the logical thing to do, with Reddy describing the software as basically having your own J.A.R.V.I.S.

“Your medical records, your financial records, your electricity bills, etc. It'll be able to look through all of that and it'll be able to build a digital twin of your life,” he said, with future plans to install agents that can make phone calls on your behalf to fix plans or get updates.

“We have our own registry, a DDNS, where you can sign in, and open it up to the public or to these email IDs, whom you know as friends. So when they sign in with their email IDs, they will be shown your server as a list of service providers, and they can choose that and they can ask questions to it and your server will be the one doing the inference for them,” Reddy said.

HaiVE AI Studio will be launched this weekend at the Mauritius Emerging Tech Expo 2024.