The chip is already in your bag.
Ordinary laptops now ship with fast GPUs and large pools of memory. The hardware to run a capable model is already in people's hands, idle most of the day.
Company
We are Aura Compute.
A computing company building personal, local and human-centered AI. We believe intelligence is about to become the most personal layer of computing, and that the person should own it.
Mission
Build intelligent systems that expand what people can do while preserving their privacy, control and agency.
Vision
Powerful intelligence everywhere, without anyone having to give up ownership of their context, memory or choices.
Why now
Three things changed, and they changed together.
Good models got small.
Open-weight models a few gigabytes in size now write, reason and see well enough for everyday work. They fit on that chip.
AI got personal.
People now give AI their notes, photos, work and plans. Who holds that context is becoming the most important question in computing.
Cloud AI rents you intelligence. Aura lets you own it.
Founding team
Small team. Long horizon.
Karthik Barma
Founder & CEO
Company vision, product and research direction. Built Aura's first systems, including Atlas, Barx and GlassBox.
Saurabh Mishra
Founding CTO
Technical and model architecture, infrastructure, security and engineering standards.
Sai Vikram Uppara
Founding Head of Strategy & Operations
Strategy, partnerships, investor operations and turning plans into motion.
What we hold to
Credibility now is worth more than hype later.
- Intelligence should move closer to people.
- Personal context belongs to the person.
- Bigger is not the only path to better.
- AI should increase human agency.
- Safety must be engineered.
- Creativity belongs to creators.
- Privacy is architecture.
How we talk about our work
We won't say"No data ever leaves your device."
We will sayWhat each product processes locally, what it sends, and when.
We won't say"Beats every frontier model."
We will sayWhat we measured, on which machine, and how you can run it yourself.
Where
Boston, for the long run.
We are building in Boston, one of the densest places in the world for AI research, engineering talent and deep technology. We work with investors, researchers, device makers and creators who want intelligence that belongs to the people who use it.