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GAIA

Your own AI assistants, all on one computer

GAIA — General Artificial Intelligence Agent — sets up multiple private AI assistants on the computer you already own. One for work, one for home, one for the family. Your data stays with you.

Multiple assistants side by side — each with its own memory and folders
Everything stays on your computer, not on someone else's servers
Choose any AI model by capability and budget — not locked to one provider
Hands-on installation help available if you'd rather not do it alone

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Wherever you are with AI, there's a call for you

Every session is 1-on-1 and tailored to you. Book 15, 30, or 60 minutes, whatever your question needs. No question is too small: if it's about AI, it's on the table.

Personal AI

New to AI? Perfect, start here. I'll help you set up your own AI assistant for everyday life: notes, research, planning, right inside the chat apps you already use.

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AI at Work

Learn to get real work done faster with AI: simple tools and workflows you can start using the same day, whatever your job is.

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Building a product? Get a second brain on what to build, how to add AI to it, and how to go from idea to something real.

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Updated August 3, 2026

Latest AI news for builders and leaders

Fresh artificial intelligence news, model releases, AI agent updates, research, and enterprise AI announcements curated from primary sources.

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EnterpriseAug 2, 2026

EU AI Act enforcement begins: chatbot disclosure, deepfake labels, GPAI powers

From 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities begin enforcing the EU AI Act, including Article 50 transparency rules. Interactive AI systems must tell users they are dealing with AI; deepfakes must be labelled; and AI-generated or altered content must carry machine-readable marks for detection. The Commission also published a first list of more than 180 organisations that signed the Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content, and the AI Office’s enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers now apply.

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ResearchAug 1, 2026

OpenAI Astra solves ten decade-open math problems with Lean certificates

OpenAI published ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science produced by an internal version of Astra, its next major model—each addressing a problem with no progress on the main result for at least a decade. The results span sphere packing, coding theory, non-sofic groups, Connes’s rigidity conjecture, arithmetic circuit complexity, quantum parallel repetition, the closest vector problem, Ehrhart’s volume conjecture, and Erdős problems 146, 180, and 183. Every argument ships with a machine-checkable Lean 4 certificate on GitHub (openai/ten-proofs); OpenAI estimates the tokens to find the solutions at roughly $2,000 at Sol API rates.

Source: OpenAIRead source

ModelsJul 31, 2026

ByteDance Seedance 2.5: 30-second one-take AI video with multimodal refs

ByteDance Seed launched Seedance 2.5, its next-generation video creation model built on Seedance 2.0’s unified multimodal audio-video architecture. The model generates high-quality 30-second audio-video clips in a single pass with multi-round extensions, stronger shot transitions, and upgraded multimodal referencing—up to 30 images, 10 video clips, and 10 audio clips in one generation, including clay-render, motion, and creative references. Seedance 2.5 is rolling out on Jimeng AI and Doubao Pro, with API access coming via BytePlus ModelArk.

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Meet Your Mentor

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Melvin Vivas

Engineer, mentor, and your friendly guide to AI

I help everyday people, professionals, and founders make sense of AI, and no question is too basic. Most of my mentees started exactly where you are now.

Behind that is 25 years of engineering across banking, fintech, and enterprise. These days it's hands-on work building AI apps and running my own daily life on a personal AI assistant.

Whether you're a student, a working professional, a leader, or a founder, you'll get someone who's done the work and explains it in plain language.

Senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank & Ohmyhome (Nasdaq)

Built AI Dream Photo, an AI photo app used by real customers

Building aibackends.com, free open-source AI tools for developers

Building skillsbento.com, an AI Agent Skills marketplace

Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Open Mentoring: Connecting Minds

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Let's explore ChatGPT / OpenAI APIs

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Build a React Native ChatGPT app with Cursor, OpenAI, and Expo

A full app built live, from empty folder to working AI chat on a phone.

Enrich your Life and Work with AI

A talk on bringing AI into your everyday life and work, in plain language.

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My personal AI

What I actually ask my AI

These are real conversations with my personal AI assistant lately:

“Every hour during trading hours, remind me about my stock investments”“Read these screenshots from my kids' school app and remind me of the deadlines”“What happened at the F1 British Grand Prix?”“Any Wimbledon updates?”“Find me a decent monitor to replace my old one”“What Korean drama should I watch next?”“Give me some non-software business ideas”“Summarize this video posted on X”“Make me a video”

Notice anything? None of it is about coding. My AI is a personal assistant that helps me run everyday life. You can have one too — that's what GAIA is for, and I'll help you set it up around your own routines.

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