elizaOS

How many of you have checked your phone at some point in the last hour for no reason at all?

All of you. Come on, don't lie.

Why?

I released Eliza, as an open source project about a year and a half, two years ago. And we really, we made a thing called AI16Z. So, dmarz, I got the jokes for you. Don't worry. We did it. And my life changed dramatically, and I went from, being relatively unknown to being the main character on the internet and getting more messages than I could ever handle. And it put me into a pretty bad depression, and it really made me think about what I was gonna to build and do with my life. And I really wanted to take the technology and I didn't want to do meme coins. I wanted to make sure that this was applied to helping everyone's lives be better, to help individuals.

And I, noticed something. You know, fun fact, we have consumed more information today than the average person consumed in their lifetime from the 15th century, from the 1400s. That's crazy. We were not evolved for any of this. And personally, like outside of all that main character stuff, like just the average day-to-day, I feel like a frog boiling in a pot of water, and I think everyone else does too. I think that they're in denial about it, but I see the signs. I see them say things like, "Oh man, I'm really sorry I'm late." Or like, "Oh, I completely forgot about that, but can we just do it now? Can we just do it now?" Or like, "Yeah, I just got off the last call."

You know? I mean, everybody does this stuff. We are all feeling the pressure of having to be constantly connected and plugged in so that our digital lives are, you know, well well-maintained. And I am losing my fucking mind, and I think a lot of people are. And I also think that there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with me. We're just overwhelmed. I don't think that there is such a thing as like an ADHD epidemic. I think it's a bunch of normal humans who have been put in the craziest time, in the craziest place.

We're not adapted to carry this much in our heads. And right now what you see is you see like the, people in our society who have very, let's say, low executive function are the ones who are struggling the most. And I bet you a lot of people here are... Have low executive function, quote unquote, are taking Adderall or Ritalin or whatever, or SSRIs or any of the other things, and you're wondering, "What's wrong with me? Why can I not fit into this world like everybody else does?" And you're, and you're just trying to get by, and you're taking these things so you can feel normal. But I don't think this is anything but normal. So we really had to ask ourselves, like what can we do with Eliza that was not just another SaaS product, that was not just another crypto thing, that would really help like all of us, and me, and my friends, my family, and like the people that I know.

And even if we never made any money or had any success, we would say, "This is success." This is, this is something new. This is helping people with something that they are struggling with. It's not another tab on the left. It's not, an enterprise product that's going to increase your productivity. It's going to get you your time back so that you can spend your time doing what you actually want to be doing, which I don't think is scrolling. I think if you looked at your life, at the end of your life, you're like, "Wow, I'm so glad I scrolled Instagram for like four years combined. That's great. Amazing." I don't think we have to do that, and I don't think we have to feel the stress of not replying to an email or like, "So sorry I didn't get back to you for two days."

Like dude, letters used to take seven days. You had to wait weeks. Now it's like, "Dude, I didn't get... You know, why didn't you get back to me tonight?"

So we wanted to completely re-engineer our relationship to digital media, and this is where I think agents can help. Agents can take all of the information and they can just take what we need to surface, what we need to see, and they can show us that and then handle everything else. All the spam, all the feed. I don't need a feed. "Hey, Eliza, show me the top 10 bangers on X today." That's all I need. Show me, did any new models come out this week? Oh, great. That's all I need. I, don't need all of the information. I just need what I want to see. And that's what we've been working on, is taking all the data from every connector you have, from Signal, Telegram, Discord, Slack, you know, Messenger, whatever you want, Gmail, Calendar, everything, Notion, Linear, and putting it into one agent that tracks all that for you so you don't have to.

This is your second brain.

Our strategy is not to go out and build like a big consumer product. What we're doing right now is we're working with individuals that we think are very interesting and that have kind of unique, but... Well, some unique stuff, but also some very common stuff. One of our, design partners is a mom, and it's like why is there no AI for moms? That seems like a very large market. And a lot of, you know, Middle America is saying like, "Well, AI is scary and data centers and blah, blah." Blah it's like, why is this technology not helping us today with the things that we have? Like I, love coding. I love engineering and math and doing all this stuff.

But like what about just making sure that, you know, my kid gets to where they gotta go every day? Like that would be such an amount of like... Think of the massive amount of human labor you would save across the entire world just solving that problem. So we already have these trusted partners. We're working with small business to help like take their business and, bring it into the digital future. We're working with, our friend who's an investor as well as a mom and her co-parenting situation. We're working with a, private compute company and bringing our agent to a phone so you can have entirely private end-to-end like enterprise-grade grade private agents. And, we have paid projects.

We have angel checks. We have everything that we need. What we need are supporters. We need our believers. We need our contributors. People who... And even if you didn't contribute to my project, just giving a shit and like saying, "Oh, I'm actually here to build something for everyone, and it's not just about making money." It's like this is gonna make sure that the world that we want to live in exists. So our project is fully open source, end-to-end. You can run it as an operating system. I have a Rabbit One here. I have a Light Phone LP3. These are Android operating systems, so it runs as the native OS on these devices. I have it on a MacBook.

I have it on this iPhone. This is what it looks like. It runs everywhere. It's for everyone. We're gonna start with people who need it the most, neurodivergent people, people with ADHD, autism, people struggling just with the daily stuff, depression, 'cause we understand those people. But in the long term, we're here to make sure that this goes for everybody. And you can fork it. You can steal it, quote unquote. You can take it and slop it and make your own version. But if you're making stuff to help people, this is gonna to create the future that we want to live in.