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I am also the Founder of Kareverie. Kareverie carries a long-term aspiration of mine: to build a truly AI-native company and use it as an experimental ground to explore, at the organizational level, how humans and AI will work and create together, and how the companies of the future will be reorganized.1 {▒ <*0# ▒>▓ <}=>++/ ▓[ _▓░1▓▓=1_. >}/]}}0]> ▓_*=1_— [ ▒0▒]-1>░— #*]0]]]_1▓ ▒} =}+0: *} ——_▒[ < 1▒0]< ▒{-/]]_]] /░*_▒+< *}# +[+ */ 10 ▒+ ▓▓]_]▒1+0{># }▒*▓—▒ *} **>▒0<}, ▓▓ ░<▒ }]_[1#=>>—_*▒] }▒__<, #1] —>*▓=░ #[_ #< +#░_ {_▒] _]░ *]*[[— /▒[/0{1#, ={* _<— /—{ 1*—=#[1_— >= {+} {1▓▓#▓ ░0<1 [— <}░▓{▒+/<▒_.

At the same time, I am also the Co-Founder of Sayge. We are working on something we find genuinely sexy: rethinking human data sovereignty in the age of AI and exploring the frontier of human behavior simulation.=[ {+} 0▓+1 _<{_, 1 {▒ <*0# ▒>▓ ▓}-▓>]0[[1 _/ 1_10░. ▒= {>[ {_▒]{—1 [{ ]>0—{++_} <1 0<}# _=1[*▒}*} ▒111: —#—__0_=░[ }0—_] _++] }1[[1{]{=▒< <} +░= {+[ ░{ <— #[_ ##/▓1>=░[ 0{1 0=[{+▒={ 0] ]<=▒+ _▒0+*▒>{ /=_>=▓▓{+].

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