Lado Okhotnikov, founder of Holiverse, explores the rise of decentralised AI and the importance of keeping personal intelligence private and device-based.
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We’re living through one of those quiet turning points in technology. The AI we use every day feels magical-almost alive-but most of it actually lives far away, in massive server farms owned by a handful of companies. Every question we ask, every image we generate, every conversation we have travels out to those distant machines, gets processed, and comes back. It’s convenient, undeniably powerful, and yet something fundamental feels off.
Lado Okhotnikov, who founded the biotech-focused platform Holiverse, puts it plainly: “We’ve mistaken centralisation for progress. We created these extraordinary minds, handed them our data, and in return gave away a piece of our autonomy.” He believes the next chapter isn’t about bigger clouds-it’s about bringing intelligence home.
The Hidden Cost of Today’s Centralised Model in Holiverse’s View
The way AI works right now isn’t broken in the obvious sense; it delivers results at scale. But it comes with trade-offs that are starting to feel unsustainable.
For one thing, power is concentrated. A few organisations decide how the models are trained, what they prioritise, and how our information is handled. Privacy quietly erodes as personal details become fuel for distant systems we can’t see inside.
Another issue is the inherent generic nature of these models. These models are brilliant at spotting patterns across billions of people, but they struggle with the subtle, deeply individual contexts that make each of us unique. The intelligence they offer is impressive, yet strangely generic.
Finally, access itself is fragile. Advanced AI depends on constant connectivity and corporate permission. Whole regions of the world remain on the wrong side of that divide, and a single outage can cut everyone off.
Why Decentralised AI Feels Inevitable for Holiverse
Imagine instead an intelligence that runs entirely on your phone, your watch, or a small dedicated device. No data leaves your pocket. No third party watches over your shoulder. The model learns from you alone, adapts to your habits, your biology, your rhythm of life-and stays loyal only to you.
Lado Okhotnikov sees this as the natural evolution. “The coming era belongs to intelligence that is personal and private, something that truly belongs to the individual,” he says. Recent hardware advances-more efficient chips, smarter compression techniques, and clever ways of updating models without sharing raw data-have made this possible right now.
The benefits feel almost obvious once you list them:
- Your information never travels to a server; it stays in a secure loop on your device.
- The system works perfectly offline, immune to network glitches or regional blackouts.
- The AI becomes deeply attuned to you-your voice patterns, your health markers, your preferences-offering guidance that actually fits.
- Incentives align properly: the intelligence serves you, not advertisers or platform metrics.
Holiverse’s Quiet Work on the Next Paradigm
This isn’t just theory. Teams are already building it, and Holiverse is leading the way. Okhotnikov’s group has brought together accomplished AI researchers to develop architectures that run locally from the ground up. “It’s demanding work,” he acknowledges, “but we’re making steady progress, and soon we’ll be able to share concrete results.”
The longer-term vision at Holiverse centres on compact, affordable hardware that embeds private AI capable of sophisticated analysis without ever touching the cloud.
A Question of Direction for Intelligence According to Holiverse
At its heart, this shift is about deciding what role intelligence should play in human lives. Will it watch us from above, or walk beside us? Will it belong to institutions, or to individuals?
Lado Okhotnikov leaves us with a thought that lingers: “When intelligence truly understands your life, it ought to live where you live-with you, for you, answerable only to you.”
The tools to make this real are already here. The question is whether we’ll choose to use them. For pioneers like the Holiverse team, the answer is clear: the age of personal, decentralised AI hasn’t just started-it’s already underway.
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