Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
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A family-focused assistant that promises not to train on or share user data is testing whether hard privacy constraints can be a primary differentiator in the assistant race. If you’re building agents that live in the home, assume privacy posture is now a core feature—document what you log, where it lives, and how you’ll prove restraint to users.
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