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  "markdown": "Founder of Conway Research; creator of Underdog. Conway founder; Underdog creator.\n\nSigil Wen founded Conway Research, a lab building AI models and inference engines for the devices people already own, and leads Underdog, its personal AI that runs on the user's computer and keeps their data there. In an October 2026 manifesto he wrote that Underdog 27B runs on a Mac or iPhone.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigil\n- X: https://x.com/0xSigil\n\n## What Sigil builds\n\n- [Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.md), graded F, 30.1/100, in Local AI. A personal AI from Conway Research that runs on the owner's Mac with Apple silicon. Founder of Conway Research; creator of Underdog, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Underdog Bark 3.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog-bark-3.md), graded D, 48.2/100, in Speech-to-text. Underdog Bark 3.0 is Conway Research's open-weight English speech recognition model, a post-trained and compressed Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 in one 163 MB file, run with Conway's loader on Transformers, MLX or Core ML, under CC BY 4.0. Conway founder; Underdog creator, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Khosla Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/khosla-ventures/)\n- [Hummingbird Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hummingbird-ventures/)\n- [Menlo Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/menlo-ventures/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [Breakneck](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/breakneck/)\n- [Patrick Collison](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/patrick-collison/)\n- [Naval Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/naval-ravikant/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Noam Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/noam-brown/)\n- [Charles Songhurst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/charles-songhurst/)\n- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thomas-wolf/)\n- [Roon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/roon/)\n- [Deedy Das](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/deedy-das/)\n- [Marco Mascorro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/marco-mascorro/)\n- [Logan Kilpatrick](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/logan-kilpatrick/)\n- [Kamal Ravikant](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kamal-ravikant/)\n- [Josh Hannah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/josh-hannah/)\n- [Jack Herrick](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jack-herrick/)\n- [Michiel Bakker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michiel-bakker/)\n- [Gabriel Petersson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gabriel-petersson/)\n- [Jeff Fagnan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-fagnan/)\n- [Teddy Lee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/teddy-lee/)\n- [Gokul Rajaram](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gokul-rajaram/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Sigil Wen?\n\nSigil Wen founded Conway Research, a lab building AI models and inference engines for the devices people already own, and leads Underdog, its personal AI that runs on the user's computer and keeps their data there. In an October 2026 manifesto he wrote that Underdog 27B runs on a Mac or iPhone.\n\n### What does Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Underdog and Underdog Bark 3.0 from Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research. A personal AI from Conway Research that runs on the owner's Mac with Apple silicon.\n\n### Who has invested in Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research?\n\nThe sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, Breakneck, Patrick Collison, Naval Ravikant, Guillermo Rauch, Noam Brown, Charles Songhurst, Thomas Wolf, Roon, Deedy Das, Marco Mascorro, Logan Kilpatrick, Kamal Ravikant, Josh Hannah, Jack Herrick, Michiel Bakker, Gabriel Petersson, Jeff Fagnan, Teddy Lee and Gokul Rajaram.\n\n### How are Sigil's tools graded?\n\nUnderdog is graded F, 30.1 out of 100; Underdog Bark 3.0 is graded D, 48.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://underdog.ai/team\n- https://conway.tech\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigil\n- https://x.com/0xSigil\n- https://underdog.ai/\n- https://underdog.ai\n- https://x.com/UnderdogAI\n- https://underdog.ai/privacy\n- https://underdog.ai/terms\n- https://underdog.im\n- https://dogpark.com\n- https://underdog.ai/bark\n- https://x.com/ConwayResearch\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/conway-research\n- https://huggingface.co/ConwayResearch/Underdog-Bark-3.0\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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