Jolla Unveils "Mindy": A Privacy-First AI Assistant to Challenge Big Tech

Jolla Unveils "Mindy": A Privacy-First AI Assistant to Challenge Big Tech

Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant it says is a “fully private” alternative to data-mining cloud giants crawling all over your personal information. Image : Google The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and social media accounts to provide the user with a conversational power tool that can surface information but also perform actions on the user’s behalf. This means stuff like summarizing emails and documents, booking meetings, filtering social media feeds and performing web look-ups. But they say the tool will also be able to spin up new AI agents on the fly to further expand utility so long as the necessary API keys are available to it. An AI agent marketplace is also part of the plan, slated for launch next month. Elsewhere, they’re leaning into the idea of the AI assistant as a shopping aid and personal aide memoire — meaning the user could, for …