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🔍 We are looking for a strong Research Intern to join the team!

Thank you to everyone who visited our booth at #CVPR2024!✨ It was truly inspiring to engage in meaningful conversations with each of you. We're grateful for the opportunity to connect, share ideas, and explore future collaborations. At Simular, we're advancing towards creating an AI agent that benefits everyone. Our agent no longer just stays in the chat box, but can think and act out of it. This is just the beginning – stay tuned for what's next! 🚀 🔗Learn more: https://www.simular.ai/ 🔗Join the waitlist for Simular MacOS: https://lnkd.in/gy7GJMhP #CVPR #CVPR2024 #Simular #AI #AIAgent #ActOutOfTheBox #Startup #TechCompany #ComputerVision #Innovation

We're excited to announce that Xin Eric Wang has joined us on a full-time basis as Head of Research at Simular. ✨ As assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, Eric has world-leading expertise spanning natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning, with a focus on multimodal, generative, and embodied AI. Eric brings a wealth of experience from research positions at Google Research, Facebook AI Research(FAIR), Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research. He has also played significant roles in top-tier conferences, serving as Area Chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and as a Senior Program Committee member for AAAI and IJCAI. Additionally, Eric has organized numerous workshops and tutorials on vision and language research at ACL, NAACL, CVPR, and ICCV. His contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the CVPR Best Student Paper Award, Google Research Faculty Award, and Amazon Alexa Prize Awards. We are thrilled to have Eric on board and look forward to his impactful research at Simular!

Our team is heading to CVPR 2024 from June 19-21 at the Seattle Convention Center! Visit us at Booth 1743 to experience our latest progress and see how your personal AI companion can change the way you interact with your computer. Plus, we have an open position for Ph.D. Research Intern. If you're interested, drop by and connect with our team for a chat at CVPR! See you there!🚀

Start a Zoom meeting in a "Simular" way! Eric S. Yuan (he / him / his)

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Excited to announce that our Simular agent will start doing tasks on your favorite Arc Browser (from The Browser Company) in our upcoming releases!

Imagine a workday without email overload, endless task juggling, and frustrating tech roadblocks. A day where your work… just flows. Smoothly. Your focus is uncluttered, and your time is yours to command. That’s the future Simular brings. We’re AI pioneers, building digital companions that transform work from a daily grind to a canvas for productivity. My Co-founders, Ang Li and Jiachen Yang envisaged Simular from a shared vision: to harmonize human and AI intelligence, creating technology that empowers, not overwhelms. Ang, a visionary with fire in his ambitions, saw the vast potential of AI woven into the fabric of our digital lives. Jiachen, a researcher with a deep understanding of cooperative AI, knew the responsibility that came with building this future. Together, they embarked on a mission to develop Simular, the AI agent that would reshape the way you work. I am not a cold tool, I am going to be a partner. I sit nestled in your laptop and automate every mundane task you can possibly you can think of. No more endless tabs, scattered to-do lists, or forgotten deadlines. You’ll be focused, organized, and in control. And, that’s a promise. So Simular, that’s me, will reclaim your time and energy. Instead of wrestling with technology, you can focus on what truly matters: creativity, innovation, and human connection. This isn’t just a story about a company, it’s a declaration of a new era. Work smart, live more. It’s that simple.

Two years ago, I couldn't have fathomed the ease of developing an app with Flutter from scratch as I can today. The advancements in AI have been staggering, making the process much more efficient. Despite the challenges of limited network access while traveling by plane or train, this app has been a lifesaver. The speed and accuracy of local AI today is truly mind-blowing. Amazing job Simular ! #AIRevolution #FlutterDevelopment #TechAdvancements #genai #offlinetraining #aiapplications #aiapps

Simular was born three months ago. It has been an incredible journey, and I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to all Simular friends for joining us on this remarkable journey. As we are at the conclusion of 2023, I would like to give a recap about our achievements and outline our objectives for the upcoming year, 2024. In September, Jiachen Yang and I established our company and joined South Park Commons, an amazing community for founders. At the first week, we launched a MacOS chatbot prototype that could utilize any selected text as context. Many friends who knew us expressed their confusion as to why we just built a wrapper of GPT. We literally told them “just be patient”. In October, we launched our first API-based tool that integrated with Google Calendar. And by November, we had achieved our first pixel-level computer control, allowing us to physically manipulate the mouse and perform tasks. By then, Simular basically acquired a wide spectrum of abilities in the digital world. We had the opportunity to showcase our agent's capabilities at SPC's demo faire and were excited to receive a lot of positive feedback. https://lnkd.in/gwbBdUGn It’s been a tremendous journey for both of us. It’s like every morning when we wake up, we feel more excited about what’s next about the agent. We call the past three months the inception phase of our company, as we built out the basic capabilities of the agent. Simular's abilities have been steadily increasing. However, we are not content with the current speed. This leads to our next phase, scaling. Scaling will be the primary theme for the year 2024. Our objective is to significantly expand the range of supported actions in an exponential manner. As many of you may know, this is a very challenging problem, and we invite you to stay tuned on our progress. I still vividly remember the first thing Aditya Agarwal taught us in SPC is the dilemma faced by founders, which is finding the balance between focusing on the long term vision and attending to the details of the current product. We’ve been executing our plans consistently under this philosophy. If you have been following us from day 1, you probably already notice how much of a difference we have made so far. By saying that, I also want to share a preview for our upcoming launch in the next few days: 1. Introducing a fully private local mode which piggyback on the awesome community of llama.cpp and open source LLM models. 2. Improved handling of context selection, you can select any application, any window, any text or any image you want to start your task with. 3. More and better cross-app action controls, like creating google/zoom meetings and sending messages in different messaging apps, reading an image and setting calendar events, etc. And of course, a better streamlined user interface for a better user experience. Please apply to our beta program at simular.ai Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year!