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Conscious Engines • Studio on Twitter / X
5. @feynon_ is the founder of Tiles, a privacy-focused AI assistant built around local models and ATProto.At the Mumbai meetup, he will be speaking about building privacy-first AI products using local models and open protocols. pic.twitter.com/x4ZAGyZu24— Conscious Engines • Studio (@cengines_studio) May 18, 2026


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republicofscience.substack.comBluesky’s CTO @pfrazee.com has been hard at work building AI tools on atproto, he’s going to be presenting his explorations on Tuesday in SF and Wednesday at the Seattle AI meetup luma.com/zfjek18n
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