Hey, I'm Adam Cohen Hillel

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I'm a builder, since forever. I built apps and games that were used by millions of people. I founded companies and built 100+ products, some succeeded, some didn't. My skillset and interests are very diverse, from games and apps to cybersecurity, hardware, and AI. I also like to read and write a lot (see below).

• I started building websites when I was 8, but no one took me seriously, so I built my own websites (and eventually apps) for myself, which then led to building one of the first and biggest mobile games company in Israel, Gruchka Games (iOS) - with more than 1.5M downloads and 150k MAU.
• I then joined the one of the top cyber units of the IDF (unit 81), as a system, then software and security engineer. Which forged me to be able to set up a whole server room from scratch and obvs to write good code! (you can read about funny shitty code I wrote as a kid here)
• After my military service I moved to London and joined Cado Security as its first employee and founding engineer, and grew with the company through series Seed, A, and B. Led the software engineering team of ~6 engineers.
• Founded Deepen, an AI companion app that became the #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, and was downloaded 20k times. Couldn't grow ir further though, and broke up with co-founder.
• Then I moved to San Francisco, and built a bunch of AI x Hardware products, including The Ark and Adeus, the first open source AI Wearable device (announcement), which led to the Based Hardware Omi / Friend Company, to which I'm an advisor board member.

Today I'm building SightBear, an offensive AI Security Engineer that autonomously finds and exploits web + web3 vulnerabilities.

Some cool stuff I did before:

• Adeus: the first open source AI Wearable device (announcement), which led to the Based Hardware Omi / Friend Company, to which I'm an advisor board member.
• The Ark: a rugged, offline, off-grid, AI device.
• VuleRe: AI Agent for finding vulnerabilities in smart contracts deployed in ETH
• Masked-AI: A Python SDK and CLI wrapper for more secure usage of public LLM APIs
• varc (Volatile Artifact Collector): A tool for collecting snapshots of volatile data from systems
• Deepen: AI companion app / AI Therapy with over 20k downloads, hundreds of monthly paying users across platforms, and #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (AppStore) (PlayStore)
• TrailMate: Offline AI app for hikers and outdoorsmen (AppStore)
• Liars.AI: AI app for detecting lies in video conversations (Website)
• AIwaska: A concept game showcasing personalized, AI-generated immersive worlds (GitHub)
• Tic Tac Toe with Minimax Algorithm in Assembly back in 2015
• AgentX: Coding Agent that follows the Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology
• LLMitlessAPI: one single HTTP endpoint that triggers an AI agent.
• The Dreamer: Dynamic chatbot with evolving inner world
• And many more projects!

Opinions of mine people don't often agree with:

• Privacy is becoming one of the most scarce resources on the planet, which poses a great market opportunity - as people will eventually sober up from the techno-utopian bullshit and realize that privacy is a must
• Open Source is the future of democracy. Voting is not really working for the masses. In the age of AI, AGI, ASI or whatever you want to call it - open source will be the way we the people can collab and "vote"
• Beers are good for productivity, same as coffee. Someone who don't drink coffee if defo less productive

Some press:

• SF Chronicle, "In Bay Area research labs, engineers work to cram AI into 'smart' hardware gadgets"
• Frogi, "Started developing apps in high school and turned it into a business"
• Geektime, "4 apps developed by particularly young Israeli entrepreneurs [apps]"
• Seeed Studio Blog, "Build a 100% Open Source Personal AI Companion Adeus with XIAO ESP32C3"
• "AI therapy with adam cohen hillel"
• Information Week, "Top ChatGPT Fails (and Why You Should Avoid Them)"
• Pythian, "Exploring ChatGPT as an Incident Response Tool"
• This Week in 4n6, "Week 6 2023: Your weekly roundup of Digital Forensics and Incident Response news"
• This Week in 4n6, "Week 14 2023: Your weekly roundup of Digital Forensics and Incident Response news"

Patents:

• Method and system for detecting and preventing unauthorized access to a computing device
• :( that's it, I'm too lazy to submit more

Random:

• I run the SF2 hacker house in San Francisco
• I speak about AI, Open Source, and other stuff on w/ my friend Yam (Hebrew)
• LLMs Cheatsheet repo (Running LLMs on a Raspberry Pi, Fine-tune small LLama3 8B model with output from Big LLM Llama 3 405B, more)

I also write essays on Substack, and you can find a backup of all my essays here

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