News and notes on Aloe, a buzzy new entrant in the A.I. race, which is seemingly capable of building, vetting, and using tools to more reliably answer user queries.
Arun Bahl is hoping to build a different kind of A.I. company, one explicitly designed to steer our society away from a dystopian future and toward something more… agreeable. But what really distinguishes Aloe, which Bahl co-founded in 2023, is that the company’s A.I. model (also called Aloe) is apparently “self-building.” There’s a certain woo-woo aspect to the endeavor: The company’s employees are referred to as “gardeners” who shape and guide the technology, and the website emphasizes that Aloe isn’t going to sell your data or “mine your dopamine.”