Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

That kind of data collection could be a particularly treacherous trade-off for users of an AI assistant, which may need access to the most intimate details about you in order to be useful, from medical conditions to financial data to data on your kids.

As Wen wrote in what he calls his AI manifesto, “Why should using AI require surrendering your private information?”

He tells TechCrunch: “I honestly want to build Underdog for myself. I’m building a product that I would be proud for my future children to use.”

The startup behind Underdog is named Conway Research, and Collison isn’t its only big-name investor. Conway is backed by Andreessen Horowitz via partner Chris Dixon, as well Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird, SV Angel, the Anthology Fund (the partnership fund between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic) and a prominent list of angel investors that includes Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch, Noam Brown, and Deedy Das, among others.