A startup called Vana wants to change that. With Vana, Kazlauskas and Abal set out to build a platform that lets users "pool" their data - including chats, speech recordings and photos - into data sets that can then be used for generative AI model training. They also want to create more personalized experiences - for instance, daily motivational voicemail based on your wellness goals, or an art-generating app that understands your style preferences - by fine-tuning public models on that data.
"Vana's infrastructure in effect creates a user-owned data treasury," Kazlauskas told TechCrunch. "It does this by allowing users to aggregate their personal data in a non-custodial way ... Vana allows users to own AI models and use their data across AI applications."
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