Project
Aria
An AI with a personality of its own, running entirely on your own hardware. It remembers you, reads about what you care about, and grows over time.
Articles
- Aria - From learning RAG to an AI with a personality of its own
- Aria's memory, Part 1: What's worth remembering
- Aria's memory, Part 2: The RAG pipeline
- Aria's memory, Part 3: Keeping it tidy, and in your hands
- Aria's conversations, Part 1: Talking in real time
- Aria's conversations, Part 2: Answering the right message
- Aria's conversations, Part 3: Fitting a long conversation into a small model
- Running Aria locally, Part 1: The local stack
- Running Aria locally, Part 2: When things break
- Running Aria locally, Part 3: Moving, cloning and many personas
- Aria's personality, Part 1: Defined by settings, not prose
- Aria's personality, Part 2: A personality that changes
- Aria's relationship, Part 1: Getting to know you
- Aria's relationship, Part 2: A bond that grows at a human pace
- Aria's relationship, Part 3: The relationship debugger
- Aria reaching out, Part 1: Why it writes first
- Aria reaching out, Part 2: What it writes about
- Aria reaching out, Part 3: Boundaries and silence
- Aria's knowledge, Part 1: Reading the world safely
- Aria's knowledge, Part 2: Learning what you care about
- Aria knowing itself: what it can do, what it wants, and when it isn't well
- Aria's voice, Part 1: A voice server of its own
- Aria's voice, Part 2: When its voice leads
- Aria's tools, Part 1: Doing things in a reply
- Aria's tools, Part 2: The web and other AIs
- Aria's looks, Part 1: A face of its own
- Aria's looks, Part 2: Pictures in chat
- Aria's talking picture, Part 1: Its picture speaks
- Aria's talking picture, Part 2: Tuning how it moves
- Playing together with Aria, Part 1: Games
- Playing together with Aria, Part 2: Stories and roleplay
- Behind the scenes: how Aria is put together
- Aria extras: conversation examples and the feature builder