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Day 2 · Interview 06 of 2211:48 AM · Moscone West

Dustin Allen

Co-Founder & CEO, Trinitite

An on-device AI model that makes other AI follow your rules.

The full conversation

6:03 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:40 · Dustin's answers, condensed.

Clips

6 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Make AI follow your rules

“Essentially we like to say we make AI follow your rules. We built our own AI model and it sits directly on the device and it enforces your rules so you say hey you I want Muse or ChatGPT to summarize my emails but don't …”

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Your data is who you are

“Yeah, so the reality is there's two things. One, it's private, right? You don't want your data in somebody else's cloud. I mean, there's no value in that because you're essentially giving away all of your IP. It's who yo…”

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Why can't I do this?

“My very first startup was in college you know I was doing parties nightlife entertainment but you know when I was head of product for this unicorn we had hit a hundred plus million installs we were 100 plus million in re…”

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Not ready to eat glass? Don't quit.

“For those people that might be listening that either they want to either quit the job and start a company what's your advice for them But you know the reality is is if you aren't willing to like eat glass and like crawl …”

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Agents are the new OS

“The trust layer for agentic AI is kind of that ground that isn't gonna change. You know, Microsoft still relies on its vendors for security and safety, and they're the operating system. So if you look at it, agents are t…”

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First thing I'd do: end homelessness

“Once you sell this as a unicorn, what do you want to do next? Honestly, I would love to end homelessness, cure any type of food insecurity, make sure that we've got all the diseases that we can cure with medicine. That'd…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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