On May 25, 2026, VentureSquare published a long-form CEO interview with Luke Yang, who is building Naia.
The interview covers Yang's three-startup journey and the vision he arrived at — "an assistant AI that understands and stays with me". Why that vision has to be local-first, how it places long-term memory and realtime voice dialogue at the core, and what trial and error came along the way.
What the interview covers
- Local-first AI — runs on personal PCs, not in the cloud. The user's data, memory, and personality stay on their own machine.
- Long-term memory — persistent per-user memory across sessions. naia-memory, a custom cognitive memory system.
- Realtime voice dialogue — Naia-talk (Naia-Omni). The core modality now reaching stability.
- Three startups — how lessons from earlier ventures (including Belivvr) translate to Naia's user-centric design today.
Read the Full Interview
The full interview (in Korean) is on VentureSquare.
This is an interview announcement. The company-level press summary is at about.nextain.io newsroom.
