Harry Yang, former chief research scientist at Facebook AI, has created Kya, a new AI personalized digital human platform that aims to completely disrupt the AI ​​digital human field.

At Facebook, Harry Yang worked closely with another AI leader and colleague Srinivas Narayanan. Now, both have left Meta. Srinivas moved to OpenAI as vice president of engineering, while Harry Yang left to create Kya as the next evolution of Character.ai, the AI ​​digital human 2.0 version. He previously served as a technical officer at Vidy, a blockchain-based digital advertising technology provider.

Currently, OpenAI's ChatGPT is undoubtedly the leader in the industry, with more than 100 million users. However, ChatGPT's AI assistant technology does not have a personalized option.

That’s when Character.ai came to the fore, with the personalization platform having attracted more than four million active users in just six months. After a recent $150 million investment round led by Andreesen Horowitz (A16Z), some of Character.ai’s characters, such as Super Mario, have already had tens of millions of messages sent.

According to a PYMNTS report, Character.ai's current valuation has reached $5 billion to $10 billion, a significant increase from April's $1.4 billion.

On the Kya platform, when you talk to a character from the famous American TV animation "The Simpsons", you will find that this character remembers many detailed scenes from his life, even some trivial things, which the same character on Character.ai does not have. The character on the Kya platform responded with actual funny anecdotes and expected slang and punctuation.

In the Kya team, Harry Yang now leads the world's most prominent adversarial training researchers from Harvard, Cambridge, and MILA. Harry Yang said that the Kya team is a group of senior PhDs with decades of combined experience in AI research.

Dr Harry Yang explained that Kya’s digital avatar was built to behave like a real person, and said that Kya’s test users talk to Kya’s digital avatar for more than an hour a day on average.

Kya's advanced AI digital human technology will have a wide range of Web3 application scenarios. Kya will not only support Web3 projects within the platform, but will also use Web3 technology to help AI digital human creators achieve profitability and provide infrastructure for the creator economy in the AI ​​era.

About how Kya uses AI technology to empower Web3:

Kya is preserving digital lives forever on the blockchain, minting unique 1:1 personalities that you can talk to, chat with, and monetize. Each Kya character has features that Character.ai and ChatGPT don't have. Kya's AI digital human characters have complex and evolving personalities, long-term memories, can perform complex tasks, and even proactively chat with you. You can also communicate with them on any text platform, not just the Kya website. And they all come with a digital certificate with their own unique DNA.

Kya is also a platform where you can create and monetize your own characters, and even clone private characters of you and those you authorize.

About Kya's Mission:

The Kya team is dedicated to preserving, decoding and replicating the learning foundations in biological nervous systems and applying them to artificial intelligence networks with the same psychological functions as humans. At Kya, the team is permanently preserving human life and converting it into digital life on the blockchain.

About Dr. Harry Yang:

At Facebook, Harry Yang created the groundbreaking "Make Video" platform, which allows Facebook users to generate videos from text. He led a major computer vision overhaul at the company and worked on Facebook's large language models. Harry Yang received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and is an expert in adversarial learning, natural language processing, and large language models.

Harry Yang has received thousands of citations and multiple major IEEE and CVPR submissions for his cutting-edge AI research in areas such as large language models, adversarial training, and computer vision.

Today, Kya opened up the whitelist on its official website, which is the first opportunity to communicate with the Kya team.