"Windeck and Aidan Guo, 19, launched Attention Engineering earlier this year to build a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI. "It's not exactly a desktop assistant, but kind of becomes one: ambient, proactive, and personally understands you," Guo said. "It can surface a lot of insights like how you use your time," he said. In the coming months, the tool will be able to automate everything you do on your computer, like a "cursor for everything," he said."
"San Francisco goes by many names. There are the basics: SF, San Fran, and even Frisco. Now, as AI takes hold of the city, some have taken to calling it Cerebral Valley. For Julian Windeck, the 23-year-old founder of Attention Engineering, San Francisco these days evokes an earlier era where creativity was its own currency. "What Florence was in the Renaissance, SF is in the age of AI," Windeck told Business Insider."
"The two said they met through mutual friends, Silas Alberti, the cofounder of Cognition, and Marvin von Hagen, the cofounder of The Interaction Company. Windeck, from Germany, took a more traditional path. He studied computer science in Germany and at Cambridge University, and then conducted AI research at MIT before deciding academia wasn't for him. "I didn't want to be some cog in the machine," he said."
Attention Engineering secured $1.25 million in pre-seed funding to build a next-generation, AI-powered desktop assistant. The assistant is designed to be ambient, proactive, and personalized, surfacing time-use insights and eventually automating routine computer actions as a "cursor for everything." Investors include Google DeepMind's Lukas Haas and venture firms such as Village Global. Founders Aidan Guo, 19, and Julian Windeck, 23, combine startup experience and academic AI research. Guo left Carnegie Mellon and joined programs like Z Fellows and Emergent Ventures, while Windeck studied in Germany and at Cambridge and conducted AI research at MIT.
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