Hey, I'm Adam Cohen Hillel
A more detailed story: (skip)
- Started coding when I was 8, then around 12 I started walking around my home town to try and convince small businesses I should build them websites - but no one took me seriously, so I decided to build my own stuff.
- This led to me founding one of Israel's first major mobile games companies, Gruchka Games (iOS) - reaching 1.5M downloads and 150k MAU at its peak.
- I then joined the IDF and served in one of the elite cybersecurity units as a system and security engineer. There - I basically learned to set up entire server rooms from scratch and write proper code (check out a funny story of my early coding days here)
- After my service, I moved to London, UK, and joined Cado Security as the first founding member. I grew with the company from seed to series B, and built their entire engineering team. The company later got acquired by Darktrace for $100M+.
- I founded Deepen, an AI companion some time before chatgpt came out. We got around ~20k downloads in ~4 months, but I couldn't scale it further, and had a co-founder breakup. But I learned a ton!
- Moving to San Francisco, I built a bunch of AI x Hardware products at Founders, Inc. including The Ark and Adeus, the first open source AI Wearable (announcement), which then became Based Hardware Omi / Friend Company, to which I'm an founding member & advisor.
- Pivoting back to cyber, I built SightBear, an offensive AI Security Engineer that autonomously finds and exploits web3 vulnerabilities - but quickly decided it's not what I want to do with my life.
In between all of the above, I built many other things, some of which are listed below.
Some cool stuff I did before:
- HijackedAI: Create an AI agent backed by real money where players try to convince it to release funds
- 3DGen: Instantly create 3D models from text descriptions. Perfect for Three.js, games, and more - just describe what you need.
- Wielder: Create and share games with friends
- 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
- SightBear, an offensive AI Security Engineer that autonomously finds and exploits web + web3 vulnerabilities.
- 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)
- Drawith: Draw something and let AI guess what you draw
- 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
- Adam2.0 (aka adam the bot): A fully automated bot based on my twitter data, with its own inner world where it can access the internet, play games, write & read posts here, etc.
- Dim42: open source multiverse protocol - embed portals in your game to connect to other games and worlds
- 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)
Some books I read:
I also write essays on Substack, and you can find a backup of all my essays here
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